nolanimrod on December 15th, 2011

An Atlantic piece on Brazil­ian Wax Jobs bares all with this lit­tle hooded nugget:

Then, in 2000, one ground­break­ing episode of Sex And The City made the Manolo Blah­nik demo­graphic sit up and take notice: Hero­ine Car­rie Brad­shaw found a new swag­ger in her step after wax­ing it off. And once Car­rie was bare down there … well, remem­ber when the Sex And The City girls ate cup­cakes? Let’s put it this way: There’s now a cup­cake bak­ery on every other cor­ner in upper Manhattan.

Yup. A TV sit­com about four neu­rotic losers (but, let it be noted, losers “in the City”) has them eat cup­cakes and the big news flash instan­ta­neously jumps across the brains of the New York Times read­er­ship:  Abjure the Arugula! Nix the Nou­velle! Shun the Sushi!

It’s Cup­cakes All Around!

So the next time you read some­thing in the Times, maybe a thought­ful exe­ge­sis of some­thing by Paul Krug­man (some­thing you thought you under­stood until he explained it to you) that sounds like a rant by South Park’s Cart­man just con­sider for whom he is writ­ing it.

Because fash­ion isn’t what one wears. Fash­ion is what one is.

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Tags: liberal elites

…I have a 13-​​year-​​old daugh­ter And that’s all I hear, “That’s not fair,” she says. “That’s not fair! That’s not fair!” And one day I snapped, and I said, “Honey, you’re cute, that’s not fair. Your fam­ily is pretty well off, that’s not fair. You were born in Amer­ica, that’s not fair. Dar­ling, you had bet­ter get down on your knees and pray that things don’t start get­ting fair for you.”

Oh! You were think­ing of some­thing else…

Here’s TWT

 

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Tags: envy, fair

nolanimrod on December 12th, 2011

Hmm­m­m­mmm. There is a won­der­fully con­cise, brave, and truth­ful piece in the Autumn 2011 City Jour­nal. Con­cise because it is well-​​written and mirac­u­lously brief for it’s topic, brave because it flies in the face of the cur­rent ortho­doxy which pro­claims that bean-​​counter diver­sity makes up for hav­ing one’s troops slaugh­tered in their mess hall, and truth­ful because it records the thoughts of peo­ple who are labor­ers in the vine­yard rather than talk­ing bobble-​​heads.

But that’s for another time. For now we’re into cheap shots because some­times they can be quite reward­ing. From the article:

It’s likely no coin­ci­dence that the World Eco­nomic Forum now ranks the U.S. fifth among indus­tri­al­ized coun­tries in global com­pet­i­tive­ness, down from first place in 2008.

Hmmm. First place in 2008. Now in fifth place. Too far behind for even a pastel-​​colored rib­bon. And what hap­pened in 2008? What big, trans-​​formative, thing?

 

shepard fairey 2008 Obama hope image

(aban­don all?) hope

 

 

basil rathbone as sherlock holmes

We may be into a trend here, what say, Watson?

 

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Well, it’s been a while, but I still remem­ber it. We didn’t have a lot of money. And I DID lose my new mit­tens the first day I had them.

Mil­lions — MILLIONS — of Amer­i­cans are pray­ing for a chance to get their lives work­ing again and this sad puppy is tying up traf­fic in his obses­sive desire to con­vince Mommy that it wasn’t his fault.

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Tags: Barack Obama, big kids