Rerun link - This video includes an hour of deeply convincing analyses.

Sigh.

Apparently, we're no longer allowed our individual tastes when it comes to relationships. Not only should men be shamed for not finding their wives attractive after they gain 200 pounds, but men should also find transgendered women attractive. I can't seem to find it now, but I once came across a perfectly absurd proposal on Twitter that suggested that a heterosexual man should be required, by law, to date one trans woman for every four cisgendered women.

That should give guys a new way of turning down women they aren't attracted to."

"Sorry, babe. I would love to hook up with you for coffee, but my last date was my fourth consecutive cishet lady. Gotta go hook up with a trannie, or I get thrown into the hoosegow."

Would straight men be required to maintain a log accessible to some Department of Transgendered Relationships, complete with names and dates to show they're maintaining our quota of transgendered relations?

A decidedly weird individual, a transgendered woman called Zinnia Jones, has also argued that men who don't want to date transgendered women
have an issue they need to work through, and should be shamed until they are considered outliers among heterosexual men.

Good luck with that.

But I have wandered from the topic before I even managed to introduce it.

Now, apparently, even female pornstars aren't entitled to their preferences to perform sex scenes heterosexual men, as opposed to bisexual men who have done gay porn.

August Ames, a 23-year-old porn actress, recently declined a part in a porn flick when she learned that her sex partner was a bisexual man who had done gay porn.

She tweeted a warning to the next actress to replace her in this project that her sexual partner has done gay porn. When she suggested that her preference was for her own safety (likely a hint that having sex with a bisexual increased her chances of acquiring AIDS). The denizens of Twitter descended on her "homophobic" ass. She defended herself, insisting that she loved gay people and indicated she was also attracted to women herself, but had a right to her preference not to have sex with gay men.

When the attacks continued, she finally responded, "fuck y'all." And killed herself.

One such porn star (Jaxton Wheeler, who has since made his tweets private) had tweeted, "the world is awaiting your apology or for you to swallow a cyanide pill. Either or we'll take it."

I wonder if he's happy now.

They are fortunate to not be immediately treated to a tour of the Pit of Misery.

Dilly dilly!

https://www.gomn.com/life/bud-light-sends-minneapolis-brewery-a-cease-and-desist-from-the-renaissance

It used to be bake the damn cake, bigot.

Now it's fuck the damn cock, bigot.

The Cheesehead Stasi.

A Wisconsin Attorney General report on the year-long investigation into leaks of sealed John Doe court documents to a liberal British publication in September 2016 finds a rogue agency of partisan bureaucrats bent on a mission “to bring down the (Gov. Scott) Walker campaign and the Governor himself.”

The AG report, released Wednesday, details an expanded John Doe probe into a “broad range of Wisconsin Republicans,” a “John Doe III,” according to Attorney General Brad Schimel, that widened the scope of the so-called John Doe II investigation into dozens of right-of-center groups and scores of conservatives. Republican lawmakers, conservative talk show hosts, a former employee from the MacIver Institute, average citizens, even churches, were secretly monitored by the dark John Doe.

http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2017/12/doj-report-wisconsins-infamous-john-doe-was-more-sinister-than-first-reported/

PSA

Social media mobs are jackals with the memory of gnats.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/282781/

How about no?

An increasing number of jihadists active in Syria are fearing for their lives. The result: they want to go back to the Western countries where most of them were born and raised.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/western-jihadists-joined-isis-fear-lives-beg-sent-home/

Patrick, a bit OT, but one thing I wonder about is whether asexual people today have any social rights yet - aside from those who become priests or nuns. My guess is that they have the right not to date (it would be somewhat difficult to find like-minded people to date, after all) only if they don't talk openly about it - much in the way that childfree people had a similar right before this century.

That is, so long as CFs allowed other people to believe that they were just infertile, most people would not criticize them for not adopting. (How is THAT any less selfish than not reproducing?) But being honest about their true motives, even only with close friends, was considered horrific. Karen Lindsey (co-author of "Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book" and author of other books) said that when she got sterilized in the early 1970s, even her diehard lefty friends who'd supported the Weathermen were openly horrified. (She was 28 at the time, I think - she'd be 73 by now. I'm pretty sure she is NOT the same person as the industry professional who works with blue chips.)

And just because I enjoy seeing Conan and Crid get all triggery-snowflakey.

And just because I enjoy seeing Conan and Crid get all triggery-snowflakey.

I'm olde enough to remember when that sort of behaviour from an accuser wasn't adequate to rule out sexual harassment. #ClarenceThomas

At 99 years old, a Filipino Bataan Death March survivor finally gets his recognition.

The first battle for the Philippines took about six months, which was longer than the Japanese expected, and got their commander, General Homma, in a lot of hot water. Low level conflict ensued thereafter, and the subject of the linked article was in the thick of it.

Homma got into trouble because he ordered his men to treat the Filipinos with respect, going so far at one point to stop his troops and order them to clean up and tighten their formations, knowing that unkempt and undisciplined soldiers were more likely to loot and rape.

He attempted to outmaneuver the Americans retreating down the Bataan Peninsular, foregoing costly frontal assaults, a banzai tradition in the Japanese Army at the time. This strategy cost him time and brought criticism from his superiors and subordinates who felt he was not aggressive enough.

Upon the capitulation of the Americans at Bataan, Homma turned his attention to the assault on Corregidor. He ordered that the prisoners were to be treated humanely and left he disposition of the surrendered Americans to subordinates, many of whom considered Homma to be soft.

For his lack of aggressiveness, Homma was forced into retirement by 1943. He was brought out of retirement and tried as a war criminal for the Bataan Death March.

His army had planned for 25,000 prisoners of war in reasonably good health, but got 76,000 sick and starving prisoners suffering from malnutrition and malaria. Japanese military doctrine and custom did not provide for humane treatment of prisoners, so common soldiers guarding them were often brutal in their treatment of prisoners.

Homma's trial was controversial and many considered the outcome to be a foregone conclusion; little more than MacArthur's revenge for defeating him in battle. Homma was executed by firing squad.

Not that I care anything for Chelsea Handler, but seriously...was Roseanne Barr looking into a mirror when she tweeted this?

"Homma's trial was controversial and many considered the outcome to be a foregone conclusion; little more than MacArthur's revenge for defeating him in battle."

Yeah, old Doug wasn't above revenge, apparently. From what I've read about life as a prisoner during the occupation, Japanese treatment of their captives seems to have been a mix of deliberate cruelty, logistical incompetence, and staggering obliviousness.

From what I've read about life as a prisoner during the occupation, Japanese treatment of their captives seems to have been a mix of deliberate cruelty, logistical incompetence, and staggering obliviousness. ~ Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at December 8, 2017 11:36 AM

It was.

Japanese military doctrine beginning in the '20s was underpinned with the assumption that Japan would be deficient in supplies, weaponry, and manpower vs. any enemy she fought. These deficiencies were to be countered with high morale and fearless aggression from its troops. Fanaticism was indoctrinated at all levels. Japan believed her morally superior soldier could carry the battle, even against a numerically superior force. As a result, mercy for civilians or a surrendered enemy was not a virtue to be found in the Japanese military at that time.

Despite that military doctrine being proven wrong at Khalkhin Gol, when the Soviet Red Army under Marshall Zhukov destroyed a Japanese army with tanks and air power, the IJA's general staff clung to the belief its soldiers' moral superiority would carry the day against any opponent (except the Soviets, whom they avoided fighting for the rest of the war).

The deliberate racism promulgated by the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere didn't inculcate Japanese soldiers with empathy for conquered enemies.

Homma was not the only outlier when it came to Japanese generals and their treatment of civilians and captured enemies. Several other Japanese generals did prohibit cruelty to civilians, most with very limited success. For the most part, aggression and cruelty were the standard operating practices and were even encouraged by the high command.

From Conan's linkie to Khalkhin Gol, we come across this fellow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kyoungjong

A Korean who got conscripted into the IJA in Manchuria, was captured by the Red Army and kept prisoner until 1942 when he was released to join the Red Army. He was captured by the Wehrmacht in 1943, and sent to France to fight for the Reich. After D-Day, he was captured by the US Army paratroopers.

After the war, he was freed and moved to Illinois, where he died in 1992.

About August Ames: damn, Patrick, I'm sorry to see that. She was being smart. There is ample evidence that some males performing outside the USA have come back to infect the surprisingly small pool of professionals in the business (ref: Asia Carrera's FAQ). I've talked to Traci Lords, admitting that I know nothing about the business or her early X-rated movies (really haven't seen any), but I found her to be reasonable and articulate - there isn't any reason I should think otherwise, and there isn't really any reason to shell August.

That's your Twitter animal for you. Tweets do hurt.

Even disaster is not exempt from idiotic road diets.

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/938886612678823939

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