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Good News For Fans of "The Far Side"

I ran across this over morning coffee....

Gary Larson's "The Far Side" website has been updated for the first time in 20 years with a "Coming Soon" message. I only have one thing to say.https://t.co/l0Ym3M9d8W pic.twitter.com/2PctflQBbO

— Michelle Lowery (@MichelleDLowery) September 15, 2019

10 Down: Sharing of a Moral Viewpoint to Gain Social Approval

Poor self proclaimed 'Greatest Crossword Solver in the Universe', Rex Parker, seemed ready to bust open an artery railing against Saturday's New York Times Crossword which featured a 15-letter expression that we all have come to know all to well:

This puzzle is so on-brand. I mean, this is exactly the kind of term I'd expect to find in a puzzle that just this week was reminding us all of the glory of Confederate monuments. That's a term used predominantly by those who are real mad that they can't be as openly racist and homophobic as they used to be in the good ol' days. People who use that term also use terms like "P.C." and "SJW" [and the word that's in the puzzle at 41D]. Super-popular term with right-wing "thought" "leaders." Aggrieved white men love the term. And it's rich coming from an editor who has struggled to keep racism / sexism / classism out of his puzzles. I say "struggled," but that implies he cares or is trying, so maybe not. 

Anyway, you can dodge criticism of your terrible behavior by calling the criticism [SPOILER DELETED], but your behavior won't be any less terrible. I'm not [a variation on the spoiler] for pointing this out. Just a sentient person with a capacity for empathy.

The expression is: "virtue signaling." or the substitution of an appearance of virtue for real virtuous acts. I kinda dislike the expression myself, but for those of you who like it, I suspect you'll like it even more knowing how much it bugs the people you enjoy seeing it used against.

In order to "prove" that you are truly victoriously correct in your adherence to the tenets of the SJW religion, people need to ostentatiously demonstrate their fidelity. It's about shunning and fear of being shunned. It's about people bowing to a regime of self-righteous intolerance toward others by indicating that they are not one of those who are not to be tolerated. The virtue signal is an act of cowardice.

 H/T Ann Althouse

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Fishnet Friday

What Do You Call a Bridge With Drooping Nuts

When you do something really bizarre to get attention, it doesn’t really help your cause. It spreads a message alright, just not the one you intended.

* How To Save The Planet: During Brexit Debate, Climate Activists Glue Themselves To Parliament. Naked. 

* Left-Winger Fights Brexit By Stripping Naked On Live TV & Challenging Politician To Nude Debate. 

* In An Effort To Force Congress To Save The Earth, Radicals Superglue Themselves To Walls In Washington. Yeah — That’ll Do It.

Your message to most people is “We are all suffering from mental illness. Please, dear Lord, somebody help us.”

Any activism that involves glue or orifices to the south of the mouth is a FAIL (but congrats to Parliament’s anti-Brexiters for managing to combine the two — touché). In Houston, this week’s radicals did manage to avoid adhesive and genitals, but there was still something dangling: Their whole bodies.  Those convinced the best way to sell the world on saving itself from itself was to hang themselves from a bridge — because that’s the oldest trick in the book when it comes to winning an argument.

Ahead of the Houston's impending democrat presidential primary debate, about a dozen activists suspended themselves from the Fred Hartman Bridge in order to fight the use of fossil fuels. In order to make their point, they held yellow and red flags. Maybe they should’ve gone with yellow and blue — those two colors make green. Or…what’s the official flag for insanity?

Anyway, check it out in the video. And though they aren’t nude, enjoy the drooping nuts.....

Interesting choice to hang from a bridge: If the most extreme among us were to get their way, it wouldn’t be needed. People would cross the waters in row boats.

[Redstate]

[Houston Chronicle]

[VGBA]

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Squinty & Meat Puppet - Biden a Train Wreck and Lizzy a Loser

The Morning Joe folks are afraid—very afraid. They painted a Democrat doomsday scenario this morning in which Joe Biden would implode, Elizabeth Warren would win the nomination . . . and proceed to lose to DJT.

According to Joe Scarborough, behind the scenes among Democrat insiders, "everybody" says Biden's campaign is a "slow-motion train derailment," and "they believe, and many fear, that Elizabeth Warren is moving toward this nomination." 

Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations contributed some unintentional humor by mentioning as a "centrist" substitute for Biden. . . Kamala Harris. Yeah, the same Kamala Harris who supports a far-left agenda including unrestricted abortion, repealing the law making illegal entry into the US illegal, elimination of the Electoral College, avid support for the Green New Deal, slashing of the defense budget and erasing the second amendment.



[NewsBusters]

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Creepy Swedish 'Child of the Corn' Is Here to Bring Atmospheric Enlightenment

With her perfectly memorized talking points and shadowy funded Trans-Atlantic yacht trip to New York for the U. N. Climate Summit, the Asperger's afflicted Climate Charlatan, Greta Thunberg, made her first appearance of many I'm sure, on the CBS Morning Show. The sixteen year old will participate in a climate strike outside the White House Friday as part of a six-day visit to bring atmospheric enlightenment to all planet destroying neanderthals .

Greta told the slobbering celebrity star struck hosts that climate change has put the planet “outside its comfort zone.” and World Leaders should panic.

“By ‘panic’ I don’t mean world leaders should literally panic, but that we and they step out of our comfort zone, because the planet is outside its comfort zone. We also need to be outside of our comfort zone to prevent the worst consequences from happening. What I want people to do now is to become aware of the crisis that is here." 

"I tell world leaders the science, and how it looks like. It actually had a lot of impact when you speak truth to power and you don’t bother to be polite. We cannot focus on what we can or cannot say; we must speak clearly on what is happening."

Will anyone question who is financing her climate alarmist propaganda endeavors? Protesting while a guest in another county is a bit arrogant and rude wouldn't you say? And I'm wondering if she has plans being rude and arrogant in China and India, who’s main domestic product is pollution?

This little girl and her mentally challenged obsession are being used - a poster child for the climate elites who have much to gain monetarily from hyping a natural occurrence as something we caused and is only fixable by them, for a price of course.

I waited for the CBS hosts to ask how is it that CO2 is a greenhouse gas or what courses in thermodynamics she's taken to make her an expert on something as complex as climate studies? Then I remembered I was watching celebrity star struck media talking heads no smarter than she was....

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Open Letter to the Gender-Confused Dude in the Beard and Lipstick: My Kid Is Going to Stare.

Excerpts from Megan Fox@PJM

Dear Gender-Confused, Questioning, or Queer Guy with the beard wearing lipstick: I saw your open letter to parents like me with young children who stare at you when you are out fannying about in your skirt and your lipstick without bothering to shave your face or attempting to pass as a woman in any way. You think it’s rude that my kid stares at you in the mall or at the beach or wherever you happen to be defying all gender-normative behavior.

You don’t like it and you especially don’t like it when I tell my child not to stare at strangers or talk about them in public. You think I should drop whatever I’m doing at the moment to explain queer theory to my kindergartner. Let me save you the trouble of worrying about this a second longer.

That’s not going to happen.

Let me tell you what is going to happen in my house. We don’t subscribe to the current false notion that gender identity is fluid or vast. There are two genders; male and female. Your chromosomes determine your sex. Whatever mental gymnastics are going on inside the minds of people who want to believe otherwise are none of my business. However, I will never lie to my child about biology.

You suggested I pull my child aside after he asks why you’re wearing lipstick and say to him, “Yes, Johnny, sometimes boys do wear lipstick and that is perfectly okay. You can wear lipstick too if you want!” Except what you are suggesting is that I deny my religious beliefs and science to do so. Would you force a Muslim child to eat bacon to please your sensibilities?

As a gender-non-conforming person, it seems to me that you have made a decision to be “queer” in many senses of the word and that comes with a lot of staring. No one says you have to go out painted like a mashup of Lady Gaga and John Wayne Gacy. That’s the choice you made. The consequence of that choice is that small children might be frightened or curious. Your insistence, though, that all people conform to your non-conformity and your personal ideas of what a man can or should be is unsettling. You want to be able to define masculinity for you, but we are not allowed to do the same for ourselves? You cry for tolerance of your strangeness but are completely intolerant of biological sex-affirming philosophy.

Speaking of gender dysphoria, it’s a mental disorder. Clearly, you are all working hard to have it taken off the list of disorders but even that won’t change the truth. People who suffer from gender dysphoria are truly living in pain. That is not something I would ever encourage in my children. On the contrary, I would seek out psychological help and therapy if any child of mine had this problem. Gender dysphoria is not a party. It’s a lifelong, crippling disorder that can result in the destruction of healthy body parts and suicide.

The photographs of you seem to show a man who isn’t really interested in passing as female. There’s little attempt to hide male traits like your beard and facial features that are decidedly male. Add to that your style of dress, which is more performance art than “running out for errands like everyone else.” A biological woman in your outfits would draw stares too. You’re broadcasting a “look at me” vibe but you don’t want to be looked at.

So either try harder, or shut up about the staring.

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