A progressivist academic tells confreres they ought to stop demonizing conservatives:

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/11/11/liberal-academia-in-donald-trumps-world/

Brings to mind some of the tactical & strategic adjustments feminists made when they discovered their barefaced aggression was mobilizing opposition to the Marxist/feminist agenda.

If you have the time, the comments are worth a read.

Anne Rice's next Vampire Chronicles saga is going to happen in Disneyland

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2112829-blood-from-human-teens-rejuvenates-body-and-brains-of-old-mice/

Media bias? what media bias? they just report the news not make it...oh.

The bigger shock came on being told, at least twice, by Times editors who were describing the paper’s daily Page One meeting: “We set the agenda for the country in that room.”

http://deadline.com/2016/11/shocked-by-trump-new-york-times-finds-time-for-soul-searching-1201852490/

Troll level: Master Blaster Dad.

http://www.boredpanda.com/dad-recreates-daughter-selfie-cassie-martin-chris-martin-part2/

So they fix it in one week while everywhere else takes forever

https://twitter.com/BearHamid/status/798711605055754240

There’s been a wave of Twitter threads and essays saying that liberals and the media should have to change nothing, that it’s the rural enclaves of the country that have to get acquainted with the politics and cultural values of the urban coasts. Pause and consider the fact that any sense that the media was complicit in this failure lasted all of, I don’t know, 36 hours. That’s about as long as a total inability to impact the outcome of a momentous election inspired introspection. Despite a greater need for adversarial media ever, and despite a candidate who gave them more scandals than they could possibly ask for, they couldn’t change much of anything in how the public voted. And yet I see today that they’re right back to the same blame-shifting, joke-telling, lol nothing is serious lol lol culture they’ve always been.

http://fredrikdeboer.com/2016/11/13/theyre-going-to-keep-losing/

I can sum up Lastango's linkie a bit more clearly: arrogance. Emphasis mine.

This failure speaks as much to our brand of liberalism as it does to Trump’s populism. Within our privileged, cosseted circles we have gotten used to not only thinking that we are right, but that we are obviously so. By putting down “straight white men” with gleeful impunity, we gave poor white voters everything to apologize for, and nothing to believe in. By ignoring those women who do not see in Hillary Clinton the triumph of feminism but the triumph of insider privilege over female disadvantage, we lost the 42 percent of women who voted for Trump, as well as the many who stayed at home. In all, we missed the writing on the wall about shifting patterns of exclusion and alienation, and ended up with a paradoxically antiquated and incomplete version of “progressivism.”

Again, if you believe yourself to be "right" and "on the right side of history" and that being obviously "true", only those who are evil will oppose you.

If one believes you should be forced bake cakes for weddings in Oregon, can one be forced to cater events in Michigan?

http://blog.blackbusiness.org/2016/11/chef-don-studvent-black-owned-restaurant-boycott-catering-trump-event.html#.WCyYE-IrJhE

Commies against Trump? in Austin, you say? getting arrested for roughing up Trump supporters?

http://valleycentral.com/news/local/anti-trump-protests-continue-at-the-capitol

Instapundit gives us a shot and a chaser. Why are blue enclaves such cesspools of hate crime?

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/249336/

http://reason.com/archives/2016/11/15/the-detroit-police-department-is-running

. In order to reduce its perpetual gender imbalance—87% of its 556 members are men—the academy seeks to recruit 10 new members in 2017 and six more in 2018, all with two X chromosomes.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/bold-new-step-dutch-science-academy-holds-women-only-elections

Prior to the election I found two dozen anti-Trump articles on CBS News in a single day.

One week after the election, a search on their front page returns 59 hits for Trump's name.

One. Week. Later.

Awesome. The media motivated people to vote for Trump and now instead of changing their tactic they double down.

I guess they're just getting ready for the mid-term elections. Why admit you're wrong when you can just scream "Racist/sexist/misogynist/Islamophobe" instead?

Wait, Pax Dickinson is now Alt-Right?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/11/15/twitter-suspends-alt-right-accounts/93943194/

The difference in the comments between the one in USA Today and Ars Technica are staggering.

t would target state universities that use taxpayer dollars to fund election-related sit-ins and grief counseling above and beyond what is normally available to students. Those that do would be subject to a budget cut for double the amount they spend on such activities, Kaufmann said. It also would establish new criminal penalties for protesters who shut down highways, like those who briefly closed Interstate Highway 80 in Iowa City during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump last week.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/14/iowa-lawmakers-suck-up-buttercup-bill-targets-protests/93797142/

Why on earth would anyone ever use firmware from China?

Can't a man eat his steak in peace? AKA: media has a cow.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/16/donald-trump-ate-steak-media-cow/

This person is well beyond my capacity to aid. I'd point and laugh, but I was taught to not pick on the mentally challenged.

Hillary Clinton Is More Than a President
She is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself.

http://www.lennyletter.com/politics/a613/hillary-clinton-is-more-than-a-president/

She is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself.

Sounds more like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, but what do I know.

Dumbasses all the way down.

According to reports out of Idaho and elsewhere, Clinton supporters have obtained Electoral College voters’ personal information and are harassing them with calls, Facebook messages, emails and even home visits, encouraging them to become “faithless electors,” and change their Trump votes to Clinton votes.

And they aren’t being kind about it: “A lot of ’em use bad, rough language,” said Layne Bangerter, one of Idaho’s electors. “Nothing I feel intimidated over. But we’re watching it very closely. They’ve got our home phone numbers, our cell numbers, our emails, our Facebook. We’re just getting an orchestrated barrage from the left.”

http://heatst.com/politics/hillary-clinton-supporters-doxxing-harassing-electoral-college-voters/

Trey Parker from South Park records some lines with his daughter.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMsTU_6hqgS/

The nerve of these Trump supporters

http://observer.com/2016/11/exclusive-trump-supporter-attacked-at-nyc-college-maga-hat-almost-set-alight/

Wait, what?

Having said that, I did wear a safety pin from pretty early on to signal that I was into safe sex. Indeed, at one point I had a six inch long red safety pin stuck through a button hole in my denim jacket!

http://www.gayinthe80s.com/2014/04/1980s-gay-scene-signalling-sexual-tastes/

Meme magic doing its work again?

Another grotesquely posed glamour photo on Drudge today.

Has anyone noticed that it's only other women, usually middle-aged ones, usually employed in media themselves, who describe Megan Kelly as alluring?

I don't think the fantasy lives of most men would carry her beyond a HJ, and not even that far if they were told they'd have to take her to dinner first.

And talk to her.

@ Crid

IMO, Kelly has Sharon Stone Envy.

http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a11741/sharon-stone-nude-0915/

(NSFW)

Not intending that as a dis of Flanagan in particular!

Just saying, there's a kind of middle-aged woman who sets other MAW's hearts aflutter by whistling a melody which men cannot hear, because we like the first sixty seconds of a good drum solo.

But Caitlin Flanagan, far earlier that most media figures in this election cycle, figured out where the problem was.

Megan Kelly's not hot? (don't show her this picture, she said women aren't sex objects)

Cleans up nice enough for lots of people, I bet. I sure somebody will talk to her. You know. Ann.

I'm guessing he was a victim studies major

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/hot-pot-death-yellowstone-national-park

Ha,, I was right

"Colin graduated summa cum laude on May 21 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and had been accepted into an applied social and community psychology doctoral program at Portland State University."

Kelly strikes me not as "hot," but merely "mannered," which is not the same thing. Or perhaps "Photoshopped"... As in 'The entirety of public access to my identity will be conducted through professionally posed and isolated depictions, such that the viewer/consumer might readily misidentify my detached vacuity as thoughtful serenity.'

If you got this election through Kelly instead of Sean Trende and Nate Cohn, you missed it.

If by Ann you mean Coulter, I'd doubt that she's impressed enough to make time for an unremarkable Fox airhead. For all I know they're golfing buddies, but I'd doubt it.

Ah, those peaceful muslims . . .

www.mrctv.org/blog/cair-leader-calls-overthrow-us-government

The problem with Kelly's attractiveness isn't her bone structure, it's her hard, mean look + a brittle, aggressive voice. She's about as inviting as a frozen bucket of nails.