• A favorite version of the sentiment expressed by Amy in the title of this blog post:

"No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind." — W. Somerset Maugham

• "He cannot understand selflessness because he is selfish. He cannot conceive of courage because he is a coward. He cannot feel duty because he is disloyal," Sullenberger wrote about Trump.

• A reminder of why you might care.

• This woman's speaking voice.

• Why they're taught to trust their instruments, not their sensations.

Is that an actual new trend?

Is that an actual new trend?

This is terrible, but I couldn't stop giggling. Turn the volume up or you'll miss it.

Given the way a few anonymous people wanted Sully's show trial to go you'd think he would be a bit more circumcept when commenting on stories requiring the bravery of anonymous people waiting 30 months to come forward and lie about rain

Turn the volume up or you'll miss it. ~ Patrick at September 6, 2020 3:14 AM

Love it, especially how the very police these idiots were protesting were the only ones who knew how to put him out. One fellow protester kept hitting him with a homemade shield, fanning the flames instead of smothering them.

🎵Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire🎵

That story in The Atlantic gets flimsier every day. Even John Bolton, no ally of Trump, denies the allegation. Four anonymous sources are claimed for authentication while ten non-anonymous sources back the denial. A US Navy email shows that the weather was the main consideration in canceling the cemetery visit.

Now, none of this denial in any way says Trump is a wonderful human being. Sully's characterization of him may be dead-on, likely is, but the convenient timing of The Atlantic allegation, just before a positive jobs report and a Biden presser, cannot be ignored.

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An update on Maughm's maxim cited earlier by Crid:

"The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person." ~ PJ O’Rourke

What "show trial"?

https://qz.com/778011/sully-ntsb-investigators-are-not-happy-about-being-made-the-villains-in-clint-eastwoods-film-starring-tom-hanks-as-chesley-sully-sullenberger/

According to the article Sully stands by Eastwood depiction of his grilling by the NTSB

Now they dont quote Sully directly, but surely we can trust the unknown anonymous sources that claimed Sully did

I see that "Stop! Drop! And Roll!" is no longer taught.

I see Kim Jong Un was out waddling around, berating people for dying in a typhoon.

Which is odd, because just the other day he was in a coma and his sister had taken over the kingdom.

I see things. Darth sees things. We have, like, vision and stuff.

Hostile work environment? TBH, I'd like to have a house made like that store. Tho flat roofs in Florida make no sense.

https://sippicancottage.blogspot.com/2014/02/sippicans-greatest-hits-hostile.html

We have, like, vision and stuff.

Shhh! I don't want BLM and Antifa to come and take that for redistribution.

She is, as you should certainly be inclined to guess at this point in the summer, white:

One of the Black Lives Matter protesters now facing felony rioting and misdemeanor graffiti charges — after a window-smashing free-for-all in Manhattan — is a wealthy Upper East Sider whose mother is an architect and whose father is a child psychiatrist.

Clara Kraebber, 20, is one of eight people arrested Friday night after a roiling, three-hour rampage that police say caused at least $100,000 in damage from Foley Square up to 24th Street.

Williamson:

In the short term, the problem is the looting. In the long term, the problem is the defense of looting.

> surely we can trust the unknown
> anonymous sources

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"Trial" ??

Kevin Williamson explains why looting is not "just property."

It is also a near guarantee of long-term disinvestment from communities in which property is not secure. The same people burning down grocery stores today will be complaining about "food deserts" in 18 months.

AND

Governments exist to protect property. That is what they are there for — life, liberty, and property, each of which is bound up in the other two. Property is the basis of liberty, and security in one’s property is a prerequisite of a decent society. Attacks on property are attacks on civil rights.

Property is necessary for the exercise of civil rights. Civil rights without property rights is a rhetoric, not a reality. The freedom of the press enjoyed by the New York Times is not worth $0.02 without the hundreds of millions of dollars in printing facilities and digital infrastructure that the newspaper relies on to actually disseminate the news. Burning that down would not be "just property" damage. If you can see that but cannot also see how looting a business involves more than “just property,” then you should go someplace quiet and think about it for a while, and pray fervently to whatever deity you believe in to reach down from the transcendent celestial realm and make you a little less stupid.

AND

In the short term, the problem is the looting. In the long term, the problem is the defense of looting.

Because we live under the yoke of a post-literate culture, there are certain obvious truths that are effectively impossible to communicate to the mass population. Everybody who has ever dealt with the TSA should understand in broad outline what is going on with law enforcement in cities such as Minneapolis and San Francisco, that it is not only possible but common for public-security measures to be simultaneously excessive and insufficient, invasive and ineffective, heavy-handed and incompetent, corrupt and abusive and necessary, that criminal violence and police violence — and police corruption and political corruption — are genuine problems that are entangled with each another in complex ways. There are productive ways to respond to that. Burning down cities is not one of them. Tweeting hysterically about burning down cities is not one of them, either.

But the petulant children in Portland want only to play-act at being Jacobins, and the petulant child in the White House requires a full-time culture war lest he be forced to run for reelection on his record of spotless administrative excellence and confidence-inspiring leadership. If ever two clutches of fools deserved one another, these are they.

Life, liberty, and property: simple to say, difficult to achieve — and still more difficult to achieve if you have forgotten how and why to secure them or never understood in the first place.

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