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Saturday, July 10. 2021

Saturday morning links

High Cost But Useless Master's Degrees And Who's Offering Them


 Barry Diller says streaming services killed the movie business as he knew it


 Churches Across Canada Being Torched By Antifa-Style Terrorists, Left Wing Government Cheers Them On…


 When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse


CDC: Schools should reopen fully this fall -- even if they can't follow all safety precautions


 California Capitol reinstates mask mandate... again


A NEW LOW IN LEFTIST FANATICISM. Politico reports a stunner today: the climatistas are begging President Biden not to be too tough on China for human rights violations, or anything else, because . . . it might be bad for the climate!


Critical race theory not very popular in new educator survey


 American Federation of Teachers Goes All In On Critical Race Theory


 The latest example of ‘white privilege’: Eating French food


 ‘Responsible pet ownership’ regulations are racist, some scholars argue


A Landmark Civil Rights Lawsuit. Private litigation against critical race theory in Evanston public schools is necessary because the Biden administration won't enforce federal law as written.


 Bookworm Beat 07/07/21 — the Orwellian America illustrated edition


 Dems are losing the multiracial working class on basic lifestyle issues

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Barry Diller is right in a way, about modern entertainment. Netflix, HBO, and the rest have stripped down movie-making into the modern franchise concept, just like MacDonald's. 'Fast Food' has become Fast Film, and a lot of the standard quality control is also gone, the content and continuity functions similarly stripped.

My wife was watching some kind of Netflix bodice-ripping palace intrigue the other night and I overheard some of the dialog: A young princess inspecting her new (Middle Ages) castle accommodations and commenting on how 'POSH' it was, in her middle-American 'British' accent.
#1 Aggie on 2021-07-10 09:20 (Reply)
So the left once again proves itself the racists, claiming that blacks are prone to abusing animals and therefore can't be held to the same standards as whites when it comes to caring for pets.
#2 JTW on 2021-07-10 09:51 (Reply)
Michael Vick was treated so unfairly!!!
#2.1 Mark Matis on 2021-07-10 10:03 (Reply)
The Dems are not concerned about "losing the multiracial working class". They know very well it doesn't matter who votes, or how they vote. It only matters who COUNTS the votes. And the Dems have that very well under control. Especially in every shithole hive in this country!!!
#3 Mark Matis on 2021-07-10 10:02 (Reply)
A NEW LOW IN LEFTIST FANATICISM. There will always be new lows in Leftist fanaticism. It's what they DO!

When Stores Close Due To Rising Crime, Urban Blight Is Back — And It Will Get Worse: The Left looooooooooooves that.

California Capitol reinstates mask mandate... again:
The STUPID is STRONG in these ones. Oregon, yes, OREGON, has dumped it. (I'd NEVER expected that!)

Critical race theory not very popular in new educator survey: GOOD NEWS.

‘Responsible pet ownership’ regulations are racist, some scholars argue: Some "scholars" are idiots.

Dems are losing the multiracial working class on basic lifestyle issues: I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not bummed for the Dems. Cluebat coming....eventually.
#4 Sam L. on 2021-07-10 10:50 (Reply)
Movie theaters got steadily cheesier, less comfortable, and more expensive, then the movie industry was shocked when people preferred to watch movies at home if at all possible.

The high point was when we could get our hands on nearly any movie ever made on DVD. I rented some very interesting offbeat movies from Netflix 20 years ago. Streaming tends to be limited to the mainstream now, though I still have a lot more choices than broadcast TV or even premium cable channels ever bothered to offer.
#5 Texan99 on 2021-07-10 10:52 (Reply)
I'm afraid our watermelon crop is going to be ruined this year the same as it was last year - too much regular rain causes the watermelons to grow big and juicy but utterly without flavor. Watermelons need to be stressed to get them to produce sugar.
#6 Jerryskids on 2021-07-10 12:18 (Reply)
re A NEW LOW IN LEFTIST FANATICISM. Politico reports a stunner today: the climatistas are begging President Biden not to be too tough on China for human rights violations,

This not a "stunner." Indeed, it was totally predictable. Life has always been cheap to the Left. All the millions killed "for the greater good" bear witness to that. In addition there has been the decades long campaign to keep DDT out of tropical nations. Better to let millions die of malaria, you see. There was also the GMO, golden rice which was engineered to contain Vitamin A, but leftists don't like that either. Better to let poor, subhuman, third worlders go blind. One can go on and on.

There is also the fond wish of those on the Left for "the Great Die Off" where the world population is reduced to 1 to 1.5 billion people.

Compared to all that, China's human rights violations shrink to insignificance.
#7 feeblemind on 2021-07-10 13:44 (Reply)

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