Tuesday Links - 4 July

Second City Cop returns! We've Been Asleep How Long?

Is Groot still around f#$%ing everything up?

Wait....teaching where?? Stop pulling our leg....seriously, we're too hung over for this. Next you're going to tell us some communist piece of human garbage took over and is hastening Chicago's descent into Hell.

And also from Second City Cop - So.....

This is the "new normal." Dissent will not be tolerated, at least not on Google platforms. As always, we are exploring other options, perhaps paying for a server not in this country with a more liberal view toward freedom of opinion. Everything is on the table.

The Other McCain - Have The Dutch Torn Down All Their Statues and Renamed All Their Streets?

Only from what Sowell calls the “cosmic justice” perspective does this kind of guilt-tripping make sense: “Let’s all point fingers about what happened 200 or 300 years ago, because that’s easier than finding practical ways to deal with the problems we have in the here and now!”

The Gateway Pundit - LET THEM EAT CAKE: Elitist Emmanuel Macron Goes to Elton John Concert as France Burns (VIDEO)

A video was captured showing French President Emmanuel Macron tapping his foot and smiling to the tune of “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” the same night France was burning due to civil unrest.

Red State - Joe Biden Disowning His Granddaughter Goes Much Deeper Than Originally Thought

Again, the logical explanation here is that Joe and Jill Biden are just awful people. Even if there was some dictate from the mother for the Bidens to stay away from her and her child (and I believe the opposite is true), that’s still not a reason to pretend she doesn’t exist. Is this really how arrogant the president and his wife have become? That they believe they can get away with acting this way? That’s a rhetorical question at this point.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: No Joy In Philly

After a couple of weeks of bucketing around various nations’ postal services, I finally got Klaus Schulze’s La Vie Electronique Volume 9, which has some really neat music, a couple of interviews, and no screeching by Arthur Brown.

Again from The Other McCain - We Survived Thunder Bird Falls. Part travelogue, part comedy. He really can write very well.

It’s Alaska. It’s about survival on the frontier — basically living inside a Jack London novel, and I’m pretty sure his protagonists never took any unnecessary risks, simply because life was so difficult they didn’t have time for cheap thrills. But nonetheless, we continued hiking up to the “Falls Overlook,” with me trailing behind so that I could navigate around the clusters of dumbass tourists who kept coming down the trail with no apparent concern about the “STEEP CLIFF” on one side.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 3 July 2023: Independence Eve Edition

Kotaku and Gizmodo writers are furious - though when are they not - after finding out that new corporate owners F/U Media - which also controls Jersey Belle, Leekspin, and Quarts - plans to replace them all with the new Ai-enabled office coffee machine. (Futurism)

"Frankly it produces better copy as well as better coffee," said F/U Media editorial director Brant Bronson.

The Other McCain again - The Consequences of Demonic Influence

This tale — family problems, mental health issues, social-media influence — is so familiar as to be stereotypical of transgender teens in the 21st century. A depressed girl with divorced parents and sexuality issues, addicted to YouTube and Tumblr, creating a fake male online persona named for a character in a video game and pretending to be a boy on Facebook? It’s a cliché.