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Celebrity scandal is as old as the tabloids, but the type of protection Spotted will offer was hardly used even a decade ago. Under the studio system, the financiers were in control — their stars’ transgressions easier to cover up, their contracts easier to tear up. True outrages like the Fatty Arbuckle case were relatively rare, and when they happened, the machine smoothed things over and rolled on. But today’s stars are the machine, commanding millions in endorsement deals and the lion’s share of indie-film budgets and carrying billions in market value on the backs of their reputations.

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Silliness keeps erupting from The Washington Post, from the supermarket aisles to the fruit stand. Post writer Maura Judkis wrote an entire article headlined “How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance.”

Judkis began: “If you want to understand how the peach emoji has come to represent both the potential impeachment of President Trump and a butt, you must first look to the ancient Sumerians.”

What are they vaping over there at the Post?

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

In this case, ‘offbeat’ is journo-speak for ‘Why would anyone want to do that?’

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Brattleboro is a small town (about 12k people) in Vermont, one of the whitest states in the U.S. There are only about 5,000 Africans in the entire state, so there’s a good chance that a significant portion of the African population in the state consists of college students at Dartmouth and other educational institutions that need African students for affirmative action purposes.

I suspect that one does not travel to Vermont if one prefers living around black people. There was a time, of course, when there were a lot of black farmers — they were called ‘sharecroppers’ and they did not have enviable lives.

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This particular ship, the Celebrity Solstice, bound for Alaska’s Inside Passage, holds about 2,800 patrons and looks like the offspring of a jet-age airport and a Las Vegas casino, lightly dosed on acid. Up in the top-floor Sky Observation Lounge, 111 passengers, all varying flavors of libertarian, are assembled for the fourth annual Contra Krugman Cruise, a weeklong meetup for like-minded listeners of the eponymous podcast. As its moniker implies, the show is dedicated to rebutting the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman’s weekly New York Times column. Its hosts, Tom Woods and Bob Murphy, dissect Keynesian dogma and revel in finding reversals in Krugman’s positions and in plain old partisanship.

I am not making this up.

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Sounds as if there was more than one  clown in that meeting.

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I guess he expected them to respond like Democrats.

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Ideology makes strange headfellows.

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The perils of harping on a scary name include trying to define it for the purpose of legislation.

Perhaps they could conduct a seance and ask the ghost of Hitler, who coined the term ‘assault rifle’.

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One word: ricochet.

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YouTube has been quietly removing hundreds of videos depicting robots battling each other to the death – claiming they violate rules governing animal cruelty.

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Did they pack it in a longship with ornaments and weapons and send it flaming off to sea?

That would have been cool.

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Peaceful protesters who, for some reason, need to wear masks and carry clubs.

Sure, I believe that.

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The study “Robots And Racism” from the Human Interface Technology Laboratory in New Zealand indicates that a robot’s color will determine how it is racially perceived. This supposedly explains why so many robots happen to be white in color: due to alleged racial preferences, the 2018 study says.

Remember that all the R2 units in Star Wars were white and the Empire’s robots were black. I guess George Lucas is a closet racist.

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It is indeed fortunate that college students aren’t expected to get an education these days, since I don’t see how they could possibly have any time for it.

Steve Sailer points out the funny.

This would make a good Monty Python sketch in which Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin get frozen for 100 years and then come back to life in the Current Year and set to work Defeating Capitalism and Building Socialism … only to discover that today’s socialists have different priorities.

And at the end of this second video, the poor he/him accidentally uses “trump” as a verb and triggers himself….

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The problem with these ‘more radical than thou’ contests is that the organization itself loses. That’s why the student ‘uprisings’ never accomplished anything.

If you ever read any of the memoirs of adventures among 1960s radicals and students, you get an uncanny feeling that we’ve seen all of this before.

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Sure, to most normal Americans Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson sounds like some hippy dippy weirdo. That’s the joke. But then again, we have our chakras out of alignment, because there are some very serious witches out there who believe there is some spiritual power behind Williamson’s debate night talk of “dark psychic forces.”

If you were to interview 1000 self-styled ‘witches’ every damned one of them would identify as Democrat.

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Attitudes like this are why ‘millennials’ are doomed.

I think I can accurately say that my investments match my social principles (get rich & stay out of jail).

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it’s so hard to tell the players without a scorecard.

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President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is capitalizing on recent plastic straw bans in Washington, DC and California by raising more than $200,000 selling reusable “TRUMP” straws.

The campaign’s official website started selling the 10-pack of branded reusable and recyclable straws this month for $15 per set. The straws reportedly sold out on at least one occasion.

Foolish me, I would have said that all straws are effectively re-usable.

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Of course they do.

Steve Sailer.

Just five years ago, everybody who was anybody, like Obama, was explaining that we need lots more video cameras everywhere to catch all the white racists in action. Now we have lots more video cameras … but we’re mostly getting to see family brawls in Toon Town, and so we are being endlessly warned that seeing shouldn’t be believing because seeing is racist.

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I am not making this up.

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In the court of the absurd, any fool can be a judge. That appears to be the case in France, where the Versailles Administrative Court has ruled that Islamic terrorist Salah Abdeslam has the right to a private life in prison. Abdeslam, you may recall, was captured during a March 2016 shootout with Belgium counter terrorism police. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the Brussels gunfight.

Yet another reason to be glad you aren’t a European.

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Yeah, that’s a real head-scratcher.

This is the sort of thing that makes me think that psychology is a pseudo-science.

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As your business goes down the tube, fella, we’ll give you a slew of awards so you can at least feel better about yourself.

D0n’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

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Two words: cricket bat.

Some people can’t be trusted outside on their own.

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Not a parody, I think.

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She’s got some doozies here.

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Male trees are one of the most significant reasons why allergies have gotten so bad for citydwellers in recent decades. They’re indiscriminate, spewing their gametes in every direction. They can’t help it—it’s what evolution built them for. This is fine in the wild, where female trees trap pollen to fertilize their seeds. But urban forestry is dominated by male trees, so cities are coated in their pollen. Tom Ogren, horticulturalist and author of Allergy-Free Gardening: The Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Landscaping, was the first to link exacerbated allergies with urban planting policy, which he calls “botanical sexism.”

With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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The one Antifa member who did show up did more than just sabotage the event. Wearing a black balaclava mask, he attempted to imprison the UW College Republicans in the room by locking the door with a master padlock and chain.

“About 45-50 minutes into the event, we heard rattling and we saw a masked guy trying to chain the doors shut,” Swanson explained. “We pushed on the door to force it open, hoping the chain hadn’t already been locked. It opened and the chain fell to the ground. The masked guy ran off and some of our people chased him and held him until police arrived.”

They don’t make ’em like they used to.

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If you haven’t heard, an 80-year Democratic Party tradition is officially too hateful and racist to continue.

No, it’s not the tradition of defending, deflecting, and denying the Democrats’ history of supporting segregation. It’s the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, the most prominent fundraiser for state and local Democratic organizations. Jefferson-Jackson Day events are hosted by all levels of the party throughout the nation. It’s as much an institution as the Democratic National Convention theme song that we hear every four years, “Happy Days Are Here Again.”

The reasons why should be obvious. The Democrats of today live and die by virtue signaling. As an increasing number of prominent Democrats — including the rockstar of the moment, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigeig — are fond of telling us, one of the Democratic Party’s founders is just too shameful to mention these days, and therefore must be dropped down the memory hole as quickly as Joe Biden’s inappropriate touching habit disappears from CNN’s collective consciousness.

Ace of Spades has the scoop.

The sad thing is that this sort of juvenile activity is what passes for ‘political discourse’ in Britain these days.

How the mighty have fallen.

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I would encourage everyone who hates Trump to do the same.

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But since the company’s founding in 1948, nothing about Dr. Bronner’s has been conventional. Its CEO, David Bronner, a ponytailed vegan surfer who wears tie-dyed shirts and drives a rainbow-colored Mercedes-Benz, has planted hemp seeds on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s lawn and was once arrested for locking himself in a cage outside the White House.

Michael Bronner, David’s more buttoned-up brother, says that social media, where so many beauty and wellness brands have built virtual empires, is “essentially amoral.” Dr. Bronner’s calls itself the “fighting soap company” because so much of its revenue goes toward activism. Most revealingly, perhaps, the brand claims that the first ingredient in all its products, from soap to coconut oil to household cleaner, is “love!” — exclamation point and all.

I see a lot of virtue-signaling, not very much in the way of ‘wellness’.

If you’ve got a First World Problem, America has a product to assuage it.

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Hard, that is, if you’re High Net Worth (HNW) or Ultra-High-Net-Worth (UHNW) people; evidently, unless you’re Grossly Rich you don’t have any problems.

“What we’ve learned at Whittier Trust working with UHNW families over multiple generations is that raising kids is hard, but doing it in the context of significant wealth is actually much harder,” said Pegine Grayson, a senior vice president for philanthropic services at Whittier Trust in South Pasadena, California.

It’s not that difficult if you don’t mind them turning out as over-entitled shits and Proglodyte Youth. Just throw them in the existing Crustian culture and stand back.

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“They were illegal in NYC for a long time and never really became a thing after the ban was lifted ?,” the freshman Democratic lawmaker tweeted Tuesday night. “Other home things many NYers don’t have in their apartments: washer/dryer, dishwasher, central air.”

Yeah, she’s perfectly qualified to tell the rest of the country how to live.

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Somebody has discovered a way to bribe voters with their own money to vote for him.

Well played.

How will this giveaway create all these jobs? Unfortunately, details not available.

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It’s comforting to know that you’re not the only ass on campus.

Note that it’s mostly female students gathered around the donkeys. Hmmmm…..

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Some people have entirely too much time on their hands.

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In 2015, Jenny Odell started an organization she called The Bureau of Suspended Objects. Odell was then an artist-in-residence at a waste operating station in San Francisco. As the sole employee of her bureau, she photographed things that had been thrown out and learned about their histories. (A bird-watcher, Odell is friendly with a pair of crows that sit outside her apartment window; given her talent for scavenging, you wonder whether they’ve shared tips.)

Ponder the notion of an ‘artist-in-residence at a waste operating station’.

Truly, San Francisco exists on a different planet.

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For those who aren’t familiar with the ‘farm-to-table’ movement, it can best be summed up as a pretentious ‘sustainable’ ‘health-conscious’ movement currently in vogue among wealthy urbanites. It involves serving meals using ingredients directly sourced from small sustainable farms. These meals are typically sold at outrageous prices.

As far as we know, most farm-to-table restaurants don’t accept payment in food stamps.

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In a bid to enhance interaction and business with the Chinese in Kano State, the Emir of Kano, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II has approved the appointment and instalment of a Chinese man, Mr Mike Zhang, as a chief and leader of the growing Chinese community in the northern Nigerian state.

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Let’s see how many lawsuits we can squeeze out of one hoax.

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Note that, having ‘voted’, they are all now required to pay the fee. No opting out. (That’s what democracy gets you.)

Steve Sailer brings the comedy,.

Pelosi’s spokesperson went on to say that if undocumented migrants were released in the streets of San Francisco they might catch cholera from all the feces

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Suspension of reality only goes so far.

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No, it doesn’t involve tequila.