Friday, February 3, A.D. 2012

Nate the Neocon

A few weeks ago, Auster shared the following comic strip in his commentary on the neoconservative silence regarding the unfolding disaster in democratic Egypt: “Egypt and the cartoonishly disastrous neocons” The comic is from Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling (Ken Fisher):

Very good and sadly accurate.

Posted by Joseph on Friday, February 3, A.D. 2012
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Wednesday, December 28, A.D. 2011

Damaged Women’s Coalition

You black hearted readers might enoy the following dark pearl from the Onion News Network: “Damaged Women’s Coalition Releases Statement.”

The “released statement” is in response to this earlier incident.

The Onion folks consistently deliver.

Posted by Joseph on Wednesday, December 28, A.D. 2011
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Wednesday, December 21, A.D. 2011

How Jewish is Hollywood?

I recently found a three year old article in the Los Angeles Times by Joel Stein that I found interesting and humorous: “How Jewish is Hollywood?” Stein quickly dispenses with concerns about “hate facts” and then has fun with the truth:

The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish.

As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood. Without us, you’d be flipping between “The 700 Club” and “Davey and Goliath” on TV all day.

So I’ve taken it upon myself to re-convince America that Jews run Hollywood by launching a public relations campaign, because that’s what we do best. I’m weighing several slogans, including: “Hollywood: More Jewish than ever!”; “Hollywood: From the people who brought you the Bible”; and “Hollywood: If you enjoy TV and movies, then you probably like Jews after all.”

Stein even has a delightful time gently mocking the appalling Abe Foxman, who deserved much more robust derision:

I called ADL Chairman Abe Foxman, who was in Santiago, Chile, where, he told me to my dismay, he was not hunting Nazis. He dismissed my whole proposition, saying that the number of people who think Jews run Hollywood is still too high. The ADL poll, he pointed out, showed that 59% of Americans think Hollywood execs “do not share the religious and moral values of most Americans,” and 43% think the entertainment industry is waging an organized campaign to “weaken the influence of religious values in this country.”

That’s a sinister canard, Foxman said. “It means they think Jews meet at Canter’s Deli on Friday mornings to decide what’s best for the Jews.” Foxman’s argument made me rethink: I have to eat at Canter’s more often.

“That’s a very dangerous phrase, ‘Jews control Hollywood.’ What is true is that there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood,” he said. Instead of “control,” Foxman would prefer people say that many executives in the industry “happen to be Jewish,” as in “all eight major film studios are run by men who happen to be Jewish.”

Stein gets in trouble from time to time for writing as if Americans still valued witty but sincere, reasonable commentary about issues that the estrogenized masses find “sensitive.” His “Warriors and Wusses” in the Los Angeles Times criticizes pacifists who claim to support the troops, and “My Own Private India” in Time expresses dismay that his New Jersey hometown has been invaded and transformed beyond recognition by foreigners. Sadly, Stein bows before the mighty gods of leftist dogma. He is surely a fellow believer in the reigning Zeitgeist, but his lack of ardent faith, accompanied by moments of humorous dissent, cannot be tolerated. So, he recants. He is not a “Great Writer” but rather a talented fellow with an interest in popular culture who has made a corner for himself in the media—a sort of leftwing Mark Steyn who has settled to write for America’s worst opinion magazine. Yet, he has a family and needs to make a buck. The Jews may control Hollywood, but leftist idealogues run most everything else in America. Even a Jewish Democrat must fear their ire.

Posted by Joseph on Wednesday, December 21, A.D. 2011
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Monday, December 5, A.D. 2011

Siri

College Humor’s video spoof on the iPhone’s Siri is wickedly funny. I find the contrast of Siri’s sweet A.I. with the dreadful couple particularly delightful (rated very, very, very R):

Depictions of broken, perverted people should not be humorous; my soul must be irremediably damaged.

Posted by Joseph on Monday, December 5, A.D. 2011
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Wednesday, November 23, A.D. 2011

Europe from Athens

I am going to pick on the Hellenes two Wednesdays in a row. Several weeks ago, George Michalopulos shared the delightful picture below, “Europe according to the Greeks,” by Yanko Tsvetkov:

It is the best of Tsvetkov’s maps in my opinion. For a larger map that is easier to read, follow this link.

Posted by Joseph on Wednesday, November 23, A.D. 2011
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Wednesday, November 2, A.D. 2011

Женщина

I found the following on 150 Knots last week:

It is funny, but it also testifies to a truth. As I commented in “Russian Jumper,” had not the winter stopped the French and German invading armies, the women would have done so. Russia demonstrates well how women keep an institution (or a society) going after the men have gone A.W.O.L. Women cannot steer the ship, but they will keep it from going under for a long time. And those Russian broads are tough!

Posted by Joseph on Wednesday, November 2, A.D. 2011
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Wednesday, October 26, A.D. 2011

Occupy Wall Street

Charles Cooke of the National Review interviewed a real daisy at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park (rated PG-13):

While I was first watching the video, it occurred to me that the woman is an unhinged, leftwing version of my mother.

Posted by Joseph on Wednesday, October 26, A.D. 2011
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Friday, October 21, A.D. 2011

More Leftist Child Abuse

The Telegraph published a story last month about the latest trend to prevent “racism” in children: “Dress witches in pink and avoid white paper to prevent racism in nuseries, expert says.” I could not justify putting the story in the “politics” and “anthropology” categories. It simply does not rise above the level of absurd humor. Among the guidelines from “equality experts” (the Orwellian titles of British bureaucrats are quite loathesome):

From the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz to Meg, the good witch from the Meg and Mog children’s books, witches have always dressed in black.

But their traditional attire has now come in for criticism from equality experts who claim it could send a negative message to toddlers in nursery and lead to racism.

Instead, teachers should censor the toy box and replace the pointy black hat with a pink one, while dressing fairies, generally resplendent in pale pastels, in darker shades.

Another staple of the classroom - white paper - has also been questioned by Anne O’Connor, an early years consultant who advises local authorities on equality and diversity. . . .

Finally, staff should be prepared to be economical with the truth when asked by pupils what their favourite colour is and, in the interests of good race relations, answer “black” or “brown”.

The measures, outlined in a series of guides in Nursery World magazine, are aimed at avoiding racial bias in toddlers as young as two.

According to the guides, very young children may begin to express negative and discriminatory views about skin colour and appearance that nursery staff must help them “unlearn”. . . .

“The advice is based on an “anti-bias” approach to education which developed in the United States as part of multiculturalism.” America, the exporter of pop culture filth and academic diarrhea! At least, a significant minority of Americans despises the idiocy. Where is the fight in the Motherland? Have they all rolled over for these crazy bastards?

I would like to dismiss the “equality experts” without comment, as they deserve nothing but contempt, but suffice it to say that “darker” colors have a negative association primarily because of night. Witches, monsters, and bad guys tend to be portrayed as dark because the night is when “bad things happen.” A lone, dark road, a grisly alley at twilight, and the shadowy world under a little boy’s bed are dangerous places. Where there is no light, there is the unknown, and frightening and dangerous elements thrive in such dimensions. Let the insane meddlers attempt to blot out the sun to equalize all times of day lest “darkness” continue to have especially negative associations!

This is not a great insight. This is common sense. One has to be perverted with much nonsense, passing as “education,” for such obviousness to become elusive.

Moreover, when will negroidally focused “minds” realize that race has little to do with “color.” Colors are useful, conventional tags for sets, from sports teams to packaged food varieties to human groups. Yet, the color named is not what designates the group; color signifies but does not decide group boundaries. Nonetheless, the not so brilliant folks that populate “African Diaspora” departments are so obsessed with “color” that they ignore the reality by being so fixated on the sign.

Posted by Joseph on Friday, October 21, A.D. 2011
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Friday, October 7, A.D. 2011

John Safran versus God

I recently discovered John Safran’s Australian antics, and I find his comedy interesting and funny. I especially like his John Safran versus God series, where he, an apparently lapsed Orthodox Jew, explores various aspects of the world’s religions. His segments on Mormons are enjoyable. In the first, Safran attempts to pitch a movie idea—xtreme Mormons—to L.D.S. filmmakers.

Safran also lets the horse out of the barn in examining Magic Masonic Mormon Underpants:

You may also see what happens when Safran knocks on doors in Salt Lake City to spread the bad news of atheism. It is a bit obnoxious, but so are strangers who interupt family dinner, I suppose. More clever is Safran’s “The Pope versus the Dalai Lama”:

You learn a bit more about Tibetan Buddhism than you need to know.

Posted by Joseph on Friday, October 7, A.D. 2011
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Monday, September 26, A.D. 2011

God’s Blog

In The New Yorker, Paul Simms published an amusing glimpse of the Almighty’s blog following the creation of the world. The humor lies in the comments. My favorite one:

Why are the creatures more or less symmetrical on a vertical axis but completely asymmetrical on a horizontal axis? It’s almost like You had a great idea but You didn’t have the balls to go all the way with it.

Bravo, Simms.

Posted by Joseph on Monday, September 26, A.D. 2011
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