When he’s indicted, stupid.

South Side alderman pleads not guilty to wire fraud, bribery and extortion.

Source: Ald. Cochran’s Lawyer Says Pol’s Actions ‘Stupid’ But Not Illegal – Woodlawn – DNAinfo Chicago

Have a heart, somebody!

RUSH:  Would somebody give Hillary Clinton a participation trophy already?  Somebody please, so they would shut up about the Russians and about blaming everybody that they lost.

Pleeeeze!

Go Kellyanne, woman of the year..

“Kellyanne Conway has been a trusted advisor and strategist who played a crucial role in my victory,” Trump said in a statement. “She is a tireless and tenacious advocate of my agenda and has amazing insights on how to effectively communicate our message.”

“I want to thank the President-elect for this amazing opportunity,” Conway said. “A Trump presidency will bring real change to Washington and to Americans across this great nation.”

Well,  amazing insights call for amazing opportunities.

And this time I mean it, and it’s not a crack about that word, at which I often blanch, quail, shrink while twisting my happy, friendly face into a sneer.

Some other possibilities? How about any one of these, with credits to thesaurus.com?

amazing, astonishing, awesome, fascinating, incredible, marvelous, prodigious, shocking, stunning, surprising, unbelievable, wonderful

Second thought, forget it. Go, Kellyanne.

Source: Kellyanne Conway gets White House job as Trump counselor | Washington Examiner

From Time and Western Man:

The psychology at the back of the various styles or modes we have been
considering is to that extent political, therefore, in that sense that the child-
cult is a political phenomenon, and without the child-cult men and women
of letters would not be expressing themselves in the language and with the
peculiarities of infancy; and certainly ‘journalese’ is, as much as the subject-
matter of a newspaper report, contingent upon the ‘greatest happiness of the
greatest number.’

It is a perfidious flattery of the multitude, though whether it
is really appreciated or indeed necessary at all, is open to question.

1927 book in which he launches “a virulent attack on what [he] calls the ‘time-cult,’ which he perceived to be the dominant philosophy of the early twentieth century promulgated by Henri Bergson (and his followers Samuel Alexander and Alfred North Whitehead), and practised by authors such as James Joyce and Gertrude Stein.

Stimulating stuff, makes you re-think a few things or, more likely, thing of some for the first time.

Two (week-) days running for Crux staff in town for a meeting:

The shocking brevity of a 27-word homily was a reminder that one problem with much Catholic preaching is simply that it goes on too long, in part because homilists sometimes don’t appear to weigh every word to determine if they’re actually necessary.

Lesson here for more than preachers.

Source: A lesson for Catholic preachers in the power of brevity

Dare any man or woman or child say landslide?

Source: Vote of Presidential Electors: December 19, 2016

 

May the best man win — by proving he’s the worst treated. Not exactly positive thinking, but if it floats their boats . . .

Meanwhile, the relator has a question, and a darn good one at that:

Are there actually students at U of Calif, [where the gathering was held] who have no color at all?

Are they transparent?  . . .

Nobody ever calls me a “person of color” even though my skin has a distinct pinkish cast to it.

This inconvenient truth was taken to heart in the mid-’60s in Chicago, where West Side white activists smilingly referred to themselves as “pinkies.” Or so one of them told me.

The relator further observed about the conference:

There is  a basic principle at work here that is invisible only to leftists who deny the reality of human nature.  If oppression is the currency of social advantage, there will never be enough oppression to go around.

A shame.

Source: Blog: ‘Students of color’ conference at University of California reportedly dissolves into a fight over who is most oppressed

Bernard Hopkins’s last fight carried the weight of symbolism.

Source: Fanfare for the Common Man | City Journal

NY Times gave him big play. It’s your source for fake news.

The New York Times published a fake news editorial this week from crooked Texas elector Chris Suprun claiming that he was a 9/11 first responder firefighter. As with everything else about this story, he was lying. No record of ‘faithless elector’…

Source: More Evidence That Chris Suprun Is A Liar And Fraud | The Deplorable Climate Science Blog

Phony story from the start.

Media lemmings do it again.