Culture Wars

When Kim Kardashian tweets out a call for gun control, it reaches 52.3 million followers. The NRA has 444,000 followers. [More]

Yes, a stepped up presence is needed, but I doubt Fairfax stodginess would know how to direct a campaign. And I disagree with the presumptuous rhetoric that "if the NRA doesn’t start figuring out how to increase their reach to match that of Hollywood, then we could find ourselves losing our gun rights."

Hutchison may lose his rights (and based on a self-imposed blindness I've seen before, he very well may), but some of us will not go gentle into that good night. Factor out all Kardashian followers not willing to exert that level of commitment and the odds don't seem so bad.

Professionally Protected Kim Kardashian Can Afford to Support ‘Gun Control’

She has an armed security team. They can go places armed you and I could not, at least not without risking arrest. Naturally her protectors enjoy and profit from their “Only Ones”-like exclusivity, and besides, how long would their employment last if they publicly disagreed with their employer? [More]

It's a big club and you ain't in it.

Let Them Eat Cake

"That's what you have security for," she says dismissively. [More]

And Kim Kardashian has plenty.

The sisters at least sound receptive.

I'd like to say it amazes me that she gets gushing agreement from admirers who are too stupid to realize she's essentially telling them their lives aren't worth protecting, but then again, for anyone empty enough to be a "fan," nothing surprises me.

Besides, considering the numbers, losing a handful won't affect her bottom line (does she have any other kind?) one bit.

[Via Jess]

Gun-Grabber Proposals, Including O’Malley’s, Getting More Outlandish and Laughable

In this case, though, O’Malley is throwing a “Hail Mary.” With Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton using up all the electoral oxygen in the room, and even undeclared Joe Biden drawing four time his numbers, O’Malley is currently coming in at three percent. That’s no small coincidence when you consider the number of estimated gun owners who will not go quietly into that good night.[More] 

How scared should we really be of a guy who's grand citizen disarmament plan gets fewer "retweets" and "favorites" -- by an order of magnitude -- than a Kim Kardashian selfie?

Doesn't This Just Say It All?

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Welcome Fourth Child Via Surrogate [More]

Her security is via surrogates, too.

We're the Fauxnly Ones Keeping Up with the Kardashians Enough

US reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint at a luxury residence in Paris by at least two men dressed as police officers, her publicist and police say.  [More]

Assuming this isn't an insurance scam, this is a pretty good illustration of why there are no safe spaces where bad things like this can't happen. That's why even homes in the best of neighborhoods have fire extinguishers.

Gee, Kim, they have all the "gun control" you demand be imposed here. What happened? And where was Shengo?

I wonder if she'll develop MLS (Mugged Liberal Syndrome)...?

Liars and Beasts

He says: “Lying for a living, that’s what acting is. All I’ve done is learned how to be aware of the process. All of you are actors. And good actors because you’re all liars. [More]

Gosh, if we can't let our opinions on the issues of the day be kneejerk swayed by those of our favorite celebrities, whose can we trust?

I used to have a VHS tape labeled "Marlon 'n Me," from when his screwed-up kid was on trial in Santa Monica for murdering his screwed-up sister's screwed-up boyfriend, and he showed up to plead for mercy, probably because he felt guilty for being a screwed-up father. I was on jury duty that day, and was standing right behind him when he gave an impromptu press conference, and my buddy called me up that evening and said "You're on Channel 9."

That same day, I saw the guy who played Bobby on "Taxi," who was at the courthouse over his continued criminal abuse of drugs, from before he blew every advantage given to him by his show business lottery win and OD'd. Plus I saw the guy who would be OJ's lawyer, not Kardashian, the other guy, Shapiro, just radiating an expensive tailored suit, shoes and hairstyle.

Anyway, if you want to see celebrities up close and personal, forget wearing your tight sweater to Schwab's Pharmacy and hoping to be discovered -- the "in" places to meet the beautiful people are where they go for sentencing, and of course, rehab.

In the words of the "immortal" love goddess who apparently killed herself because she was incapable of giving or receiving love, "That's the last..."

And that's why the opinions of stage props mean so much to me.

At Last, a Voice of Substance!

Kim Kardashian Continues Her Push For Gun Control [More]

Well, seeing as how a person of such achievement is for it...

Besides, her bodyguard is hot!

We Can Turn 'em All In Now

Kim Kardashian is anti-gun. Except if they're jewel-encrusted. [Read]

Why is this creature famous again...? And does any "culture" that makes her so deserve to be dominant?

Just Can't Quite Cut It

I'm also outperformed in the category that counts by, respectively, Pet Rescue, Paranormal, Celebrity Fitness and Health, Finance, and #6 does not display -- probably Kardashian STDs or some such.

I went to the supermarket the other day and scanned through a checkout magazine rack I generally ignore. If you think about it, it's horrifying.

Harry Potter and the Half-Wit Professor

A new study to be published in a special 2016 election issue of PS: Political Science and Politics finds that reading Harry Potter books leads Americans to take a lower opinion of Donald Trump. In fact, the more books the participants read, the greater the effect. [More]

Great "original idea" there, Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D.

I don't suppose it could just signify those inclined to immerse themselves in Harry Potter are from a demographic statistically more inclined to trivia and fantasy? Or that the "Harry Potter effect" could just as easily be titled the "Khloe Kardashian vaginal oil effect"...?

Correlation does not imply causation. Leave it to a cloistered and tenured "political science professor" to count on a "progressive" academic establishment motivated  to indoctrinate its charges to believe otherwise.

The transparent agenda here is to make "Trump = Voldemort" a conditioned reaction among the useful idiots and useless eaters, and the Hillary-infatuated media is happy to spread that far and wide.

I see from her CV this ditzy broad has been on the receiving end of numerous government grants. As offensive as that is to me as a tax hostage, the real facepalmer is:

Department of Homeland Security grant for Survey Experiments Related to Terrorism, Disaster Preparedness, and Homeland Security. (with Matthew Davis), $186,100.

If Opposite Day results are achieved, she can always pretend her burqa is an invisibility cloak.

[Via Roger J]

Just Do It

Andrew Yang no longer a Democrat, will launch third party [More]

If it'll split the Dems, I may just send him a campaign contribution.

As an aside, as I prepare this post on Sunday morning, the top headline in  the right sidebar "Trending Now" column reads "Kim Kardashian arrives in NYC in wild all-leather dominatrix ensemble." The pH Factor cultural degeneracy indicator needle is buried in the red. Take heart that the oblivious cud-chewers who demand such fare will have their role to play.

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Once they’re off script, we’re basically dealing with people who live in a bubble of celebrity privilege, where those at the top attain their station and remain there by adhering to Hollywood’s “progressive” orthodoxy, one that will tolerate no “heresies” nor recognize and reward traditional “conservative” American values. That probably goes a long way to explain how screwed up so many of these people are in real life, as evidenced by the celebrity tabloids screaming about their latest scandals from the supermarket checkout counter racks. So few of them, it seems, control themselves. How telling those seem to be the ones bent on controlling the rest of us. [More]

What do Kim Kardashian, Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke, Mark Wahlberg, John Mayer and Chris Evans have in common?  Go on, guess.

(I actually submitted this at the start of last month, but my editor told me I had a day before press time to submit an election post-mortem.  I actually prepped two outlines and fleshed out the one where Trump won the day after the vote.)

Caught Up in the Spectacle

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk: culture-death is a clear possibility.”—Author Neil Postman [More]

It seems like a pretty good time to revisit some words about mass madness.

Say, did you hear what Kim Kardashian tweeted about the Pope?