(a Serr8d joint) JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooos! Professor Emeritus from the intelligentsia; reality based

Jane Smiley goes on a rant about “Bittergate,” proving how acerbic and alienated the cosmopolitan have become:

all the pigeons gonna run to him: The world has seen the first international conference on manufacturing meat. This is the process, tested so far only at laboratory scale, of growing pork, chicken, or beef through cell culture in vats instead of raising and slaughtering animals. The writer concludes his piece in this rather chilling way:

Q&O’s McQ looks at the broader context of Obama’s comments about voters in small towns in the heartland clinging to guns, religion, anti-trade, anti-immigrant and racist views due to the last 25 years of economic policy: Now, it’s clear to me, given the full quote that Obama’s talking about why some voters in PA are skeptical about political promises and government in general. And they’re equally skeptical about who is delivering

She’s Just like Miley Cyrus: There’s another side to Alicia Keys: conspiracy theorist. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter tells Blender magazine: “‘Gangsta rap’ was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. ‘Gangsta rap’ didn’t exist.” Keys, 27, said she’s read several Black Panther autobiographies and wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck “to symbolize strength, power and killing ’em dead,” according to an interview in the magazine’s May

Obama: Unelectable, that’s what you are Unelectable though near or far Though the rants of Wright may hinder me Her transparent lies screw Hillary Never before has someone been more Hillary: Unelectable in every way That’s why I am here, that’s why I stay That’s why, Barry, it’s delectable That someone so unelectable Thinks that I am unelectable, too <instrumental interlude: tuba and digeridoo> Obama: Unelectable in every way! Hillary:

In the Poconos I saw a Christian, armed, ignorant, Who, perched on a deerstand, Held a Rolling Rock in his hand, And drank of it. I said: “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter–bitter,” he answered; “But I like it Because it is bitter, And because I don’t know no better. And I ain’t votin’ for Obama.” (with apologies to Stephen Crane) VDH at The Corner

I hope you all know that I’m not exactly a prude, and that generally I appreciate Stephen’s humor, even when it involves stating the truth, but today in Facebook he’s gone too far, updating his mood, thusly: Stephen Green watches the snow melt and laughs and laughs and laughs. 1h ago You know, I think we’ve all been there at one time or another, feeling that spring is just taking

I like to mock the left when I hear their peculiar use of the word “Big,” as in “Big Pharma” or “Big Oil,” and I love to turn it around on them when I hear that people such as San Fran Nan are benefitting from government policies they’ve backed that benefit Bigs of whatever stripe, without seeing the trouble with Big Government.  Still, it strikes me as perhaps a matter

To briefly recap: Barack Obama made comments to limousine liberals at a San Francisco fundraiser that people in small town Pennsylvania (and in the Midwest, though Obama is wrong to place PA there) are “bitter” and “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations” over the last 25 years of US economic