New York Times whines that the Golden Globes are only half "woke".

So much butthurt.

Bees! And Oprah!

Practice is controlled failure

https://twitter.com/Javoris/status/950167248613904384

On Morning Joe this A.M @jonathanvswan said of Fire And Fury, "there are whole scenes that never happened” — I am genuinely stunned at how everyone has just decided that that's not a big deal.

https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/950535367530303489

Another important book was released this week:

http://juanitabroaddrick.com/

From the James Damore lawsuit:

"The presence of Caucasians and males was mocked with “boos” during company-wide weekly meetings. This unacceptable behavior occurred at the hands of high-level managers at Google who were responsible for 100s, if not 1000s, of hiring and firing decisions during the Class Periods."

More from the Damore lawsuit:

Google managers kept blacklists of conservative employees -- and one manager even considered holding 'trials'

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/conservative-google-employees-are-blacklisted-lawsuit-alleges-2018-1

More from the Damore lawsuit:

Page 27, Footnote 3: "For instance, an employee who sexually identifies as 'a yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin' and 'an expansive ornate building' presented a talk entitled 'Living as a Plural Being' at an internal company event."

@Snoopy,

Read the parade of insults aimed at Damore.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/lawsuit-goes-after-alleged-anti-conservative-bias-at-google/?comments=1&start=0

This just confirms my theory that John Stewart and the rest of The Daily Show's alumni have damaged an entire generation's ability to debate.

Nothing but cicular logic, hyperbolic insults, attacks on Damore's looks, Kafka-trapping, cherry-picked sentences taken out of context.

My prediction for this lawsuit. Either a juicy settlement with a thoroughly stringent NDA, or Discovery is going to make all the mainstream media silent.

I don't understand why you kids are so defensive. You wanted TV stars & corruption, and you got 'em. It's teevee-teevee-teevee all the way out from here, Babe.

This graphic illustrates the differences between Orwell's vision and Huxley's.

The graphic is based on a passage from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death:

What Orwell feared where those who would ban books.

What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one would want to read one.

Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information.

Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would reduced to passivity and egotism.

Orwell feared the truth would be concealed from us.

Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

Orwell feared we would become a captive culture.

Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.

As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "Failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions."

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, people are controlled by inflicting pain.

In Brave New World, people are controlled by inflicting pleasure.

In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us.

Huxley feared that that what we love will ruin us.

While we were keeping an eye out for Orwell's vision, Huxley's snuck up on us.

We're electing game show hosts president and next in line is a talk show host with a history of embracing New Age-y pseudo-science. We are not a serious people anymore.

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New York Times whines that the Golden Globes are only half "woke". ~ Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at January 8, 2018 11:32 PM

The Golden Globes were little more than Hollywood self-righteously celebrating its heroism for lecturing the rest of us about a scandal largely of Hollywood's own creation.

@Conan,

Social Media, and its sexting tentacle has become an efficient tool to keep the masses subdued.

A tiny dragon

https://twitter.com/planetepics/status/950562800509865985

What happens when your hairy boyfriend gets the gayest makeover ever?

Click on the link below to find out

https://twitter.com/dorrismccomics/status/950762573422612480

Candidate Oprah, you got some 'splainin to do!

"Die, old white folk, whilst I snuggle up to Harvey Weinstein"

What's next? A refugee suing his victim because the dryness of her vagina bruised his peepee?

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/950787755189112835

Actor Don Johnson, who was on teevee as "Mannix" in the 1980's, would be an outstanding presidential candidate. His girlfriend was Sarrah Jessica Perkins of "Sexual Counties" on HBO, and while producing the popular "Flavors of Miami" series of crime dramas during the first (pre-Iraq) years of the Bush 1 administration, he proved to be a gifted student of international affairs.

Or, again, Foghat's bassist. (If Foghat was, in fact, an United States musical enterprise, and who knows. Slow ride, babe...!

Let's do this.

I think it's just darling that Snooplets is all buttcracked about Furious Fucktards, the new political memoir from Senior New York Times correspondent Mike Coyote... It's like some people don't have the correct perspective and don't even WANT to tell the truth, y'know?

Which Snoopless thinks is 'kind of a sad commentary on the state of America today...'

I'm in an airport. CNN is on in the gate waiting area. Donald Trump just used the "sad commentary on politics in America" line, for rills.

He meant it. He was trying to be sincere.

The man is *metaphysically* trite... Layers of meaning and epistemological coherence crumple stochastically in the fartbreeze of his lunacy.

Also, Foghat was British. Small matter.

Don Johnson was Miami Vice. Point taken, though.