Boondoggles
Canadian government hands money to people who claim to be indigenous, provided that they use it to do the same (probably bad) things Anglo-Canadians would like to do. It doesn't take that much money to "develop" heated-up slums back into open wilderness, or even farm land or park land. Just pull down the buildings, then break up whatever pavement nature hasn't already broken for you, and there you are. So they're being paid to build up more and pollute more and crowd together and breed diseases...what's the use of being indigenous then? Why even call themselves Inuit or Aleut or Anishinabe if they're going to act Whiter than the White?
Crime and Politics
According to an Xer known as C3, the ten cities with the highest crime rates in the US are...
1. St. Louis: Dem
2. Memphis: Dem
3. Baltimore: Dem
4. Detroit: Dem
5. Cleveland: Dem
6. Bessemer: Dem
7. New Orleans: Dem
8. Chicago: Dem
9. Philadelphia: Dem
10. Jacksonville: Dem
City mayors are individuals like everyone else. They can't bring down the crime rate immediately; they weren't the ones doing all of it. But there is a predictable correlation between support for a party that at least talks about "traditional values," however good or bad examples of those values members of that party may be, and personal choices to behave according to traditional values such as sobriety over addiction and working over stealing. Ds could profitably get back to their roots and reconnect with their base by reclaiming support for "traditional values." They might have to cut the wealthy transhumanists loose, but they'd be able to count on votes from real Americans who have a right to vote.
Hurricane Helene
Worth reading the whole long form post (Twitter didn't allow long form posts; X does) and as many of the comments as you can stand:
Music
Beyonce can do a lot when it comes to looking and sounding young and pretty, but I'm 99% sure this photo was concocted using Photoshop, a Breyer horse, and a Barbie doll.
Lens says it's from Variety. I believe that. I believe a lot of photos in those magazines are digitally modified if they started with living models at all. But look at the proportions of girl to horse, and the way the knees and elbows go, and the hair...Barbie! Barbie! Barbie!
Meanwhile Sydney Sweeney, another young starlet best known for being young and cute, catches hate for an ad where her voice-over rambles on about genes for eye color and says "My genes are blue," and another voice says that she "has great jeans." Sweeney has blue eyes and long fair hair. "Racist," alleged human beings squall, as if just having blue eyes that match a blue denim outfit were an act of hate. It's calculated to make anyone who has blue eyes, or has a blue-eyed relative, or ever dated a blue-eyed person and remembers that person with less than loathing, want to go out and buy American Eagle jeans just to show the people screeching "racist" how little we think of them.
Nobody seems to notice that the photos aren't advertising jeans as something young, cute women wear to work or play outdoors. They are advertising their jeans as something young, cute women wear in bed, apparently with nothing underneath. Seriously? Jeans as lingerie?
If a young woman's genes and/or jeans are all that good, she'd model her jeans in the context in which people likely to want to buy the same jeans would see them--walking across the campus or back from the grocery store, working on some sort of art or craft or home improvement project, working in a factory or stocking supermarket shelves, gardening, leading children through the park or watching their games...The ad deserves to fail because young women who want to be treated as if they're doing, or are competent to do, anything but flop into bed, want to wear jeans they associate with doing something other than flop.
Poetry
Free verse, but it's beautiful.
Worry About, Things to, As If Anybody Needed Another One
Does anybody not recognize Jeff MacNelly's "Shoe" cartoon?
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