Modern art is trash.

People are pussies about needles, and they ought not be forgiven.

Blog comments!

Illusion.

Just a video of a chubby kitty doing hydrotherapy at the tune of the Bee Gee's Staying Alive song:

https://twitter.com/ManletKnight/status/1110897137640972289

Its paws are in sync with the drum beats.

CPD is having a bad year.

This may affect their ability to attract the most honest and competent officers in times to come.

I almost wish Snoopy was still around to see this.

More about the New Zealand approach to free speech.

We enjoy looking down our nose at primitives.

Unless....

This may affect their ability to attract the most honest and competent officers in times to come. ~ Crid at March 28, 2019 6:35 AM

It will definitely affect their ability to police certain neighborhoods. And when they can no longer police those neighborhoods, they will pull out of them; and they will be excoriated by politicians for abandoning those neighborhoods and the people in them.

Politicians (and the people) will blame the police for abandoning them, not themselves for driving the police (and law and order) away in a fit of self-righteous pique. And then, as you point out, the ability to attract bright, intelligent young men and women to the police will be lost.

My fear is that, slowly, we are becoming a Third World nation, governed by passions, mobs, and corruption, rather than laws. And the day will come when that becoming will no longer be slow.

"How did you go bankrupt?"

"Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."

~ Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)

Oh, Keefums.

https://twitter.com/samrhall/status/1110909348992176132

Well, if you think of them as Democrats with bylines, you won't go far wrong. Also, this was the downfall of the tech/computing print media: they reworked and then printed press releases as news.

Wow. Good on CNN for just coming right out and admitting it.

They don't investigate.

This is what I have been saying, they basically just read press releases and tweets

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1110522534309625856

Chandler, Arizona, cops broke through the door of a family's home in the middle of the night, stormed in, pointed their guns, handcuffed the father, and watched as the state's Department of Child Safety (DCS) took custody of the parents' three kids—all because mom had decided her toddler's fever was not serious enough to merit a trip to the hospital.

https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/27/sick-2-year-old-swat-team-dcs-parents

> becoming a Third World nation,
> governed by passions, mobs,
> and corruption

1. I worry about that too.

2. Guys my (our?) age always have.

3. The Chicago and Chandler stories are both described by your comment.

4. I suspect the solution to these problems is lifelong social integration between *intelligence* classes. Smart people know how to put a stop to such things, but stupid people don't.

Western Civ has been running the opposite direction as fast as possible since WWII at the latest.

Hello from a public place! This seems like an auspicious moment to describe popular music's quintessential superpower: To remind us that one of the best things about the past is that it's *over*.

Perhaps none too soon.

The Chicago and Chandler stories are both described by your comment. ~ Crid at March 28, 2019 8:12 AM

Look at the current dust-up over proposed cuts to the Special Olympics Education Program funding. Passions are inflamed over cuts to a program that benefits the disabled. Sounds righteous, doesn't it?

But if you dig deeper and look at it with tempered emotions, you see that the DoE provides ≈10% of the organization's overall funding. Special Olympics enjoys robust support from private individuals, corporations, charities, and state and local governments.

The funds being cut are not for the global athletic competition. They are used for "...sports, clubs and activities in schools throughout the country...." These programs are intended to foster "inclusiveness" and reduce bullying. No word on how the effectiveness of that program is measured, if at all.

That $15 million in taxpayer money can be put to good use in other less-subsidized areas. Instead, the opposition's focus is on the proposed budget's increased funding of charter schools, a Leftist bugbear.

So, passions must be inflamed, the mob must be roused. The government must continue growing. In their best Helen Lovejoy, they cry, "Will somebody pleeease think of the federal bureaucracy?!"

What do you mean the rules also apply to me?! REEEE

Gotta love how now nuance is important for these idiots.

https://twitter.com/BennettCartoons/status/1111293407509516289

Dood

https://mobile.twitter.com/katzish/status/1111352031271419906

Jussie benefits more from a woke prosecutor and less from the Chicago way. An "and" maybe in play, too.

https://www.city-journal.org/jussie-smollet-indictment-dismissal

L'Affaire Smollett gets better and better.

Prosecutor Foxx did not actually recuse herself from the case. She used the term recuse "colloquially and not legally."

Yep Conan. She lied. Which is odd because she didn't have to lie. There were plenty of other ways to handle this and get Smollett off. But that is the casual arrogance in play here. Foxx didn't think anyone would even question her lie.

Funny thing is that may be what ticks off enough people to get Smollett prosecuted. Here's to hoping.

How to sports effectively.

I used to know a coach like this.