"2. Michelle Obama announced the Best Picture winner. The losers were dispatched by a drone."
The Department Of Homeland Security Stole My Boat Today | Uncrunched: "What struck me the most about the situation is how excited she got about seizing the boat. Like she was just itching for something like this to happen. This was a very happy day for her. So now I have to hire a lawyer to try to figure all this out. And I will figure it out, eventually. My point in writing this isn’t to whine. Like I said, this will get worked out one way or another. No, it’s to highlight how screwed up our government bureaucracy has become. A person with a gun and a government badge asked me to swear in writing that a lie was true today. And when I didn’t do what she wanted she simply took my boat and asked me to leave. What would you have done? Maybe most people would have just signed the form."
Cardinal Keith O'Brien resigns amid claims of inappropriate behaviour | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the UK's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, has resigned with immediate effect after being accused of "inappropriate acts" towards fellow priests. News that Pope Benedict had accepted the cardinal's resignation as archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh came after the Observer disclosed a series of allegations by three priests and one former priest. O'Brien has denied the allegations and had been expected to continue in his post as head of the Scottish Catholic church until mid-March, when he was due to retire at age 75. However, in a statement released by the church on Monday, it emerged that the pope had accepted O'Brien's resignation a week ago, on 18 February."
The Art of Non-Conformity » “I’ve Just Been So Busy Lately”: "Sorry I was rude to you the other day, someone said. I’ve just been so busy. Guess what: we’re all busy! Every one of us. It’s not a very exclusive club. And here’s another reality check: because we’re all busy, no one really cares about how busy someone else is. One way or another, we all make time for what’s important to us.
...The strategies for dealing with being “so busy” are pretty basic: 1) Be less busy. If being busy really prevents you from doing something you want, stop being so busy. It’s not that complicated. 2) Stop complaining and enjoy it. Personally, I like busy. I had fun visiting the islands last week, but islands can be sleepy little places. In Fiji I sat by the pool for an hour, but then I got bored and went back to working on my projects."
The Tactical Virtues of Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor : The Jack Donovan Interview | Heathen Harvest 2.1: "It’s popular now to say that the “1%” make all of the decisions. That’s probably always been the case. What is missing is accountability. Globalism erases local accountability. It’s socially acceptable to sell out your neighbors, because we’re all supposed to be “citizens of the world.” Men are supposed to be glad that some village in Indonesia raised its standard of living, even as the standard of living in their own hometown decreases. We’re told that it’s just “better” that way. Globalism absolves the 1% of any responsibility to the men around them. Men who should be called traitors can claim to be doing God’s work as they fill their pockets.
...The best response to government corruption is not to demand more government oversight. That’s really absurd if you think about it. The best response is to acknowledge that the social contract has been broken and cut the government and the corporations out of the loop. You can’t accomplish that with a protest. You have to start building independent networks of support. Start bartering. Become less dependent on a broken system.
...Decide who your friends are and worry about how they are doing, and not how the guy in Indonesia is doing. Let his own people worry about him. Humans are tribal. We can’t worry about the whole world. Committing ourselves to the idea that we are “world citizens” makes us easy pawns. You can’t complain about your job being outsourced or your wages being undercut by illegal aliens if you believe you are part of “one world tribe.”
...Tribesmen in loincloths and average suburban teenagers in shopping malls are going to share some sense that strength and courage are related to masculinity. If you look at the cultures where that hasn’t been the case, you’re probably talking about subcultures—like a religious order or pampered aristocrats. Clever guys always give examples like noblemen who wore a lot of lace and frills and powder…but many of these same men also dueled to defend their honor.
...the majority of blockbuster action films feature strong, heroic men performing daring acts to save innocent people, so I have a hard time seeing that as “negative.” Feminists—and the United Nations, apparently—consider any association of violence with masculinity to be “negative.” But that’s woman-think. Men see a man wielding great power for good, and that’s a positive form of masculinity that men have sung songs and written books about for all of human history.
...There are truly negative examples in mainstream sitcoms and in advertising, especially in anything marketed to women or families. The dad is always a moron, and the magic token minority is somehow always a better person than the average guy, and it’s always the woman who really knows what’s going on. It’s trashy and nakedly political, but how much can your really expect from sitcoms anyway?
...Part of being a man is dealing with reality and being able to say “that guy is just better at that than I will ever be.” You don’t want to limit yourself unnecessarily, and it doesn’t mean that you should give up trying to be better.
...Flamboyantly dishonorable men reject the way that men evaluate each other and try to rewrite the rules in their own favor. It’s the kid who sucks at sports (or something else) and gets picked on, then decides that sports are for jerks anyway, then caricatures and mocks the guys who play sports. It’s more than just “being who you are.” It’s ressentiment.
That seems to be the way people want to deal with things now. If you’re different or have a problem, you demand that the majority of people who aren’t like you change the way they talk or think so that you don’t feel bad. In First World countries, it seems like we are all rewarded for acting like spoiled children. It makes sense to some degree, because spoiled children can never be self-sufficient..."
LOL. Sexy |: "Sexy isn’t always slutty, but slutty is always sexy.
...most women also lack a fundamental understanding of the male sexual impulse... until women are steeped in 17 times their normal testosterone levels, they will never understand the male experience with regards to sex. When a woman utters the words “I don’t understand why sex is such a big deal for guys”, she’s speaking the truth.
[...it's] Men who’ve classically defined what is sexy and feminine in women. What has historically worked as sexy, and what has been historically confirmed as feminine is defined by the response and effect that particular behavior set evokes from Men. What we consider today as sexy behaviors and appearance were characteristics ‘selected-for’ that endured to become gender indicative aspects of being feminine. The inverse of this is true for women; women define what is sexy in men.
...she wants to define what sexy should be for men using metrics that she is comfortable with. The problem, as with all things fem-centric, is that this social push to redefine for men what they should find sexy slams headlong into Men’s biological imperatives. Despite feminizations incessant efforts to the contrary, we still want to fuck the girl who most closely resembles the Playboy centerfold and our erections are the litmus test..."
Afghanistan bans U.S. special forces from key province | Foreign Policy: "Amid allegations that Afghans employed by U.S. forces had killed and tortured villagers in the area, the government of President Hamid Karzai announced Sunday that it will ban U.S. special forces from operating in Wardak province, a key area just west of Kabul used by the Taliban to stage attacks on the capital."
CIA propaganda film strikes out at the Oscars - Zero Dark Thirty, the CIA and film critics have a very bad evening | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "...then political writers had begun to notice what film critics either failed to detect or just wilfully ignored. The film falsely depicted torture as instrumental in the finding of Osama bin Laden ("what is so unsettling about 'Zero Dark Thirty' is not that it tells this difficult history but, rather, that it distorts it", said the New Yorker's Jane Mayer). Beyond the torture falsehoods, it was a blatant vehicle for CIA propaganda, bolstering a worldview exclusively out of Langley ("This is not a coincidence. The CIA played a key role in shaping the film's narrative," reported BuzzFeed's Michael Hastings; the CIA "couldn't have asked for better product placement", said the New York Times' Timothy Egan; as a result, said The Atlantic's Peter Maass: "Zero Dark Thirty represents a new genre of embedded filmmaking that is the problematic offspring of the worrisome endeavor known as embedded journalism"). In sum, said MSNBC's Chris Hayes, the film "colludes with evil" (a long but very partial list of writers, filmmakers, FBI agents and even government officials who similarly denounced the film is here)."
Of course they also work very hard to make foods as addictive as possible, using the cheapest ingredients, usually with the with the least nutrient density. All that being said, if you're fat it's still totally your fault responsibility.
The Bogus Case Against Junk Food - Reason.com: "You might want to sit down for this. All set? Here it is: Food companies work very, very hard to find out what will give you, the consumer, the most pleasure for your money—and then the diabolical fiends actually give it to you!"
Like most sequels, not as good as the original, but still funny.
Movie: The Movie 2V recreates The Avengers starring armless Bryan Cranston, Jessica Chastain and CG Matt Damon: "Last year (after the Oscars) Jimmy Kimmel created a film that would sweep the Academy Awards starring black Hitler. A year later, Kimmel has pieced together a sequel to that amazing 9-minute trailer, "based on a tweet by Gary Busey and the best-selling board game Jenga." Behold the trailer for Movie: The Movie 2V Starring: Bradley Cooper, Bryan Cranston, John Krasinski, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, Jessica Chastain, Gerard Butler, Jason Schwartzman, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, Armie Hammer, Kerry Washington, Topher Grace, Bruno Mars, Amanda Seyfried and Matt Damon!"
Science is a tool, not a conclusion. Use intelligently - T NATION | The Best in Training: "Myth - "Scientific studies prove me correct!" There's a general rule in this industry that you should use whatever scientific study supports your way of thinking and disregard any other study that proves the opposite, citing quackery. Alwyn Cosgrove once said that if you took a lifter and had him perform a 1RM in the bench press, and then later the same day had him perform a full bench press workout complete with assistance lifts followed by having him test his 1RM again, the said lifter would test lower. Thus, you've just proven that weight training makes you weaker. So take each study you read with a huge amount of skepticism and understand that humans always have an agenda."
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