Month: May 2022

News Roundup

Bad News

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Oy.  The news is still worse, as you will see.


…just breaks yer heart, dunnt?


…somebody do the math and tell me:  what’s the percentage of 169 out of 6 billion?


…some might say that male humans should have the same ability.


…now everybody repeat after me:  “You can always trust the government.”

And:


…so everybody repeat after me:  “You can always trust stuff from Apple Corp.”


…I think I want a double cheeseburger and a milkshake.  Let the vegans eat fucking bugs.


…when they approach the amount we left behind in Kabul, let me know.


..put another way, 674 years of tradition flushed away for no good reason.

And:


….which would probably explain this:

And now, INSIGNIFICA:

   

Vinegar-flavored genitals?

And that’s the news.

Bad Behavior

Gummint, Rights

In the light of Senile Biden’s appointment of this nutcase to run the new MiniTrue:

…we also have this:

Weibo, a Chinese microblogging platform, announced on Thursday plans to publish the IP addresses of all Weibo users both on their individual account pages and whenever they post comments, stating it was part of an effort to prevent “bad behavior” online.

Now, as someone who has blogged under my full name pretty much for most of my online life, this would seem to be no big deal.

There are some serious caveats to this, however.

In the first case, I’ve done this in the United States, where the government, at least nominally (coff coff ) is hamstrung by the First Amendment, and what Kim du Toit says on a blog shouldn’t matter to the Gummint at all, subject to the usual constraints of a polite, well-ordered society that we supposedly are (coff coff redux ).

Would I feel similarly at liberty if I were Do Toi Kim, resident of Beijing?  Hell no.

But we know — and Biden’s actions prove — that there are a number of totalitarian assholes and Democrats (some overlap) who would not only support a government action like China’s, but actually have called for it in the recent past.

Classic Beauty: Ruth Roman

Classic Beauty

I was re-watching a 1957 movie called 5 Steps To Danger on TCM (Turner Classic Movies), which featured Sterling Hayden and Ruth Roman, and once again was bewitched by Ruth’s low, sexy voice.  Her problem was that her face was too similar to Ava Gardner’s, and Gardner already had that space occupied.  Still, here she is:

She also had a steaming pair of legs, if that counts:

 

With all that, it’s still the voice that gets me on my takeoff run.  Watch 5 Steps  if you can find it — but be warned, the plot is typical of late-50s suspense not directed by Hitchcock, i.e. awful and cheesy.  She makes it worthwhile, though.