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A David Bowie Story

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A very touching story from Neil Gaiman’s tumblr. This is probably as much as I can excerpt. You’ll have to read the rest at the link.

My friend told me a story he hadn’t told anyone for years. When he used to tell it years ago people would laugh and say, ‘Who’d believe that? How can that be true? That’s daft.’ So he didn’t tell it again for ages. But for some reason, last night, he knew it would be just the kind of story I would love.

When he was a kid, he said, they didn’t use the word autism, they just said ‘shy’, or ‘isn’t very good at being around strangers or lots of people.’ But that’s what he was, and is, and he doesn’t mind telling anyone. It’s just a matter of fact with him, and sometimes it makes him sound a little and act different, but that’s okay.

Anyway, when he was a kid it was the middle of the 1980s and they were still saying ‘shy’ or ‘withdrawn’ rather than ‘autistic’. He went to London with his mother to see a special screening of a new film he really loved. He must have won a competition or something, I think. Some of the details he can’t quite remember, but he thinks it must have been London they went to, and the film…! Well, the film is one of my all-time favourites, too. It’s a dark, mysterious fantasy movie. Every single frame is crammed with puppets and goblins. There are silly songs and a goblin king who wears clingy silver tights and who kidnaps a baby and this is what kickstarts the whole adventure.

It was ‘Labyrinth’, of course, and the star was David Bowie, and he was there to meet the children who had come to see this special screening.

‘I met David Bowie once,’ was the thing that my friend said, that caught my attention.

‘You did? When was this?’ I was amazed, and surprised, too, at the casual way he brought this revelation out. Almost anyone else I know would have told the tale a million times already.

He seemed surprised I would want to know, and he told me the whole thing, all out of order, and I eked the details out of him.

He told the story as if it was he’d been on an adventure back then, and he wasn’t quite allowed to tell the story. Like there was a pact, or a magic spell surrounding it. As if something profound and peculiar would occur if he broke the confidence.

Redirect

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There’s some really good stuff over here. A sample:

“Do you know what stupid is? Stupid is continually telling a large portion of the population that they’re the cause of all social problems, you hate them, they’re Literally Hitler and you wish them dead. And then telling them oh by the way, please give up your guns.”

 

Of Shopping Carts and Respect for Societal Norms

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There are two kinds of people in the world; people who return their grocery carts to the corral, and people who just leave them wherever. (Or steal them. Down the street from a large supermarket in my town, there’s an apartment complex where a lot of immigrants from low-trust society countries live, and there are always piles of shopping carts in front.)

I actually go a step further, I grab my cart from the corral on the way *into* the store, to spare some poor high school kid having to schlep it back in on a hot day. (And it’s always a boy; there are no feminists screeching for gender equality when it comes to dragging on shopping carts on a 90 degree August day.) I don’t get why everybody doesn’t just do that. It’s just more efficient. Sometimes I even pause to straighten out the other carts a bit, but that’s just me.

And this guy agrees with me. People who return carts properly are demonstrating concern for others and contributing to an orderly society. People who just leave their carts wherever (or steal them) are demonstrating pure selfishness. And, to me, laziness and stupidity.

Double Standards for Bad Behavior

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So… this happened.

An Oregon woman who licked, groped and verbally harassed a female passenger during a flight from Las Vegas to Portland has been sentenced to eight months of home detention.

Oh, dear. That sounds scandalous. Tell me more.

The 19-year-old victim told authorities she had been touched without consent.

The prosecutor said it was “partly because the way in which [Heidi McKinney, 27, the assailant] had inappropriately touched the victim’s chest, and partly because Ms McKinney’s ‘small talk’ consisted of repeatedly insulting the victim’s perceived economic status and bragging of her own purported wealth.”

McKinney tried to pressure the woman into drinking alcohol she had smuggled on the plane, and subjected her to lewd taunts and physical aggression.

McKinney licked the victim’s ear, forced her to touch her breasts and repeatedly placed her hand on the victim’s crotch.
“Eventually — and in spite of the victim’s repeated pleas for Ms McKinney to stop — the abuse culminated with Ms McKinney climbing on top of the victim and telling the victim she wanted to (expletive),” Mr Sinha wrote.

SARC: Wow, why are heterosexual people so hung up and repressed about same-sex love. /SARC

The way the story is written makes it sound like the drunk woman was sexually aggressive. Feminism teaches that this cannot possibly be true because alcohol makes women incapable of sexual responsibility.

She got off with house arrest, though. Wouldn’t any man who did that kind of stuff would face prison and a life-time on the sex offender registry and No Fly list?

OK, *Now* You Can Call It a Terror Attack and Other News from This Mentally Ill World

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Kafir drives van into a group of Mohammedans in front of a mosque, and suddenly, the left has absolutely no doubts about his motives.  Nor are they planning any marches or protest in solidarity with the ethnic group of whom the assailant was a member. I just wonder if London’s Mohammedan mayor still thinks terror attacks are “part and parcel of life in a big city.” (Except for Tokyo, of course, which exists in a country that bans Muslim immigration.) (All right, I missed that ILC covered this already.)

Other news you might want to talk about more than I do:

After the jump, how feminists celebrate Father’s Day. (Spoiler: By bitterly lashing out at men and PDT)

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A Few Other Odds and Ends

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There’s a handful of other things Jeff could have mentioned.

As Jeff put it so well, “Yawn.”

 

Embracing Dumb Doesn’t Make You Smart

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The idiot’s version of intelligence is to deny what common sense says is right, and counter it with the opposite of common sense. And it was the Governing Philosophy during the Obama years.

There are no winners in war, only losers. The most arduous nuclear inspection regime in history involves letting Iran inspect its own nuclear sites. Funding a state at war won’t fill its war chest. Rewarding a state sponsor of terror for its activities makes that state less likely to sponsor terror. Deterrence doesn’t work.

The logic at work in some of the more popular arguments made by Obama aides and their validators in the press wasn’t dialectical or paradoxical; e.g., if you want peace, prepare for war. It was Gladwellian—what’s really true is the opposite of whatever you think is true. Of course, that’s not journalism, it’s just marketing, or, in contemporary journalism-speak, Voxsplaining, after the popular liberal website Vox, which devoted itself in its entirety to counter-intuitive self-branded “hot takes” designed to showcase the wisdom of whatever the current Obama administration policy was.

The article limits its discussion to foreign policy, but it extended to domestic policy as well. “Freeing criminals from prison will reduce crime. Massive regulation will help grow the economy. Health care will be cheaper and better if the Government is in charge of it. The economy needs millions of unskilled immigrants even though low skill jobs are in decline.”