City Journal has reprinted(?) a very interesting piece by Theodore Dalrymple on responsibility.

t is a mistake to suppose that all men, or at least all Englishmen, want to be free. On the contrary, if freedom entails responsibility, many of them want none of it. They would happily exchange their liberty for a modest (if illusory) security. Even those who claim to cherish their freedom are rather less enthusiastic about taking the consequences of their actions. The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

AND

Listening as I do every day to the accounts people give of their lives, I am struck by the very small part in them which they ascribe to their own efforts, choices, and actions. Implicitly, they disagree with Bacon’s famous dictum that “chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.” Instead, they experience themselves as putty in the hands of fate.

AND

As a doctor who sees patients in a prison once or twice a week, I am fascinated by prisoners’ use of the passive mood and other modes of speech that are supposed to indicate their helplessness. They describe themselves as the marionettes of happenstance. [...] The knife went in—unguided by human hand, apparently. That the long-hated victims were sought out, and the knives carried to the scene of the crimes, was as nothing compared with the willpower possessed by the inanimate knives themselves, which determined the unfortunate outcome.

Probably best to not send this to the USWN soccer team any time soon.

n 2015, there was $17 million in sponsor revenue for the women's World Cup. Contrast this with the $529 million in revenue amassed for the 2014 men's tournament.

As Shane Ferro, a writer for Business Insider, noted back in 2015, “The real question is not why female athletes are paid less. People should be asking why fans and sponsors are less interested in supporting women's sports — and this is what they should be outraged about.”

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274120/womens-soccer-and-wage-gap-john-glynn

This American Footbal league needs moar media exposure:

https://twitter.com/MyLFL/with_replies

Kinda-sorta Uber in the news again today kinda-sorta kidnapping women.

This American Footbal league needs moar media exposure:

The rug burns are going to brutal.

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1143342021526130689

William Gibson wrote an Aliens III script, and now has been produced as an audio drama.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/24/18700951/william-gibson-alien-3-script-audio-drama-michael-biehn-hicks-ripley-lance-henriksen

Oh.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/pete-buttigieg-south-bend-police-shooting-town-hall-video-2020-campaign-a8973046.html

This is a great piece of advice:

https://twitter.com/wolfinsheeps/status/1108619058625146881

> Oh.

I am congenitally unable to pass the headline of an article from any other nation on the surface of our planet which begins "We thought Pete Buttigieg was qualified to be president."

Every year I am ever-more deeply appalled by the presumption of shittier, more-cowardly, less-demanding and less-rewarding cultures to smirkingly tell Americans how our politics ought to work.

If Britain knew so much about the qualifications for political service in the United States, their nation wouldn't be the ludicrous shitbath described so eloquently described by Dalrymple in the first comment on this page.

Sorry. I pissed off and lose my place of where I am. Lifelong problem because grr fucking snaggletooth limeys

Consider, if you will, the tits-out senility of this senior Sister.

Bully. He'll take yer arm off.

I am congenitally unable to pass the headline of an article from any other nation on the surface of our planet which begins "We thought Pete Buttigieg was qualified to be president." ~ Crid at June 25, 2019 1:00 PM

At what point does anybody with half a brain seriously think the mayor of a dying US city with a population smaller than the seating capacity of the University of Michigan football stadium is "qualified to be president?" Oh, he's gay? Well, that makes al the difference in the world. Give that man the nuclear codes!

Or a skateboarding failed Senate candidate who couldn't beat the most-disliked man in the US senate?

Just as you wouldn't want someone to "wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword" at them, you wouldn't want someone to wield supreme executive power because they won Miss Congeniality. That's a runner-up prize, not the trophy.

At what point does anybody with half a brain seriously think the mayor of a dying US city with a population smaller than the seating capacity of the University of Michigan football stadium is "qualified to be president?"

I think you answered that one Conan. Because the other people who want the job may be much worse. How did we get Trump? The alternative was obviously much worse.

The deeper question is why no one decent want to run for office. And yes I know the answer as depressing as it is.

Ever cough so hard you hacked up a gigantic blood clot shaped like the inside of your lung?

He did.

Not Safe For Viewing If You Ever Intend To Eat Food Again

A win for all of America (for once)

Five talking points -- er, myths about the State and Local Tax Deduction's cap.

Good luck with the social media aspect, since they seem hellbent on throwing the entire 2020 election to the Democrats:

How conservatives in California — and nationally — could turn America around

Do no evil, except when you do.

When it stops being a "choice" and effectively becomes a mandate.

And so, the stealth jihad continues.

Googledy-schmoogledy is trying to throw an election.

More openness and transparency from Democrats.

“The real question is not why female athletes are paid less. People should be asking why fans and sponsors are less interested in supporting women's sports — and this is what they should be outraged about.”

Aw, bull. The women's Olympic soccer team gets beat by high-school boys on a regular basis. The difference in athleticism is obvious.

Who wants to watch an "athlete" precisely as fast as my teenage nephew, the gamer?