Tuesday Links - 29 October

Miguel Gonzalez starts us off with It is business sense, not politics.

Newspapers have lost the veneer of respect they once had. And it is just a veneer, nothing very deep which gets stripped easily if your readers start detecting unchecked partisanship. And yes, there are newspapers that have been endorsing presidential candidates for ages, but once again we are in different times and it is no longer a question of a friendly difference of opinion among friends, but the fell of outright propaganda delivered to your door and paid out of your pocket.

Ben Kew at The Gateway Pundit - Mayhem at Washington Post After Bezos Kills Harris Endorsement – Staff Threatening to Quit and Denounce Company

There is chaos at The Washington Post after its owner Jeff Bezos vetoed an endorsement of Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.

As reported by NPR on Friday, the paper will not be endorsing a candidate for the first time since 1980 after Bezos decided the company should remain neutral.

Professor David Yamane at Gun Culture 2.0 - Liminal Gun Ownership

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the LGC National Meeting for the first time. The “L” in LGC stands for “Liberal,” but as I argued in my keynote address to the group, it could just as well stand for “Liminal.”

Anthropologist Victor Turner used the term liminality to describe the condition of being “betwixt and between.” Others have described it as being “neither here nor there.”

The Other McCain - The Schadenfreude Smorgasbord

Whenever there’s infighting among Democrats, the important thing — from a conservative perspective — is not to choose sides amongst the factions. Certainly I would never defend the sold-out and morally bankrupt establishment leadership of the Democratic Party, but at the same time I have nothing but contempt for the wild-eyed fanatics and fringe ideologues of the party’s left-wing grassroots.

Legal Insurrection - Harris Supporter Screams in Toddler’s Face at Houston Rally

The fact that a grown woman needed a lecture about not screaming in a child’s face shows how much we have fallen as a society.

Jim Hᴏft at The Gateway Pundit - JD Vance Dismantles ‘Enemy from Within’ Hoax, Schools NBC’s Kristen Welker on Pelosi and Failed Leadership

JD Vance stepped up to dismantle the “enemy from within” narrative in one powerful minute, taking aim at the leadership of Nancy Pelosi and other far-left Democrats.

When Welker pressed him, referencing concerns about foreign threats from China and Russia, Vance remained unflinching.

Again from The Other McCain - It’s Classical Allusions Day

One of the worst traits of liberals is their quasi-religious faith in progress, the idea that we — the present generation — are more educated, more intelligent and morally superior to our ancestors. The beliefs and customs of the past are to be disdained as crude, primitive and backward, and nothing about our forebears is genuinely admirable, so that monuments to heroes once universally admired are toppled because our erstwhile heroes are now condemned as racist colonizers or whatever.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Preparing for the Winter Meetings

As I mentioned Friday, the 1972 season in Pete’s league is over (Yankees won) and we’re gearing up for the 1973 season. As mentioned here, there are four expansion teams available and the deadline to let Pete know you want one of them is November 2 – next Saturday. Pete’s looking to get the draft going on the 16th, which beats last season when the draft began while I was in Nashville for the Confinement SF convention.

Stately McDaniel Manor - Democrat Shoots Reporter (which is cool because he wasn’t a Republican)!

As always, the Babylon Bee is on top of the issue. One wonders why this sort of thing so often happens when Democrats/Socialists/Communists (D/S/Cs) try to pretend they’re avid people of the gun, but the answer is self-evident: they’re pretending to be people of the gun, the better to trick the rubes into voting for them.

Wombat-socho again Rule 5 Sunday: Coffee, Please

The most important part of the morning is coffee.