American feminists

“Instead of being good at the thing they can be good at, like being a wife and mother, they choose to be terrible at something no one wants and no society has ever needed.”

http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=15057

Paying off the media

“Normal people wonder why the media is so corrupt and the answer lies in the financial arrangements. Cable news channels exist only because cable monopolies exist. The monopolies exist because they are sold by the government. The rich people who own these channels hire people to extol the virtues of rich people. The think tanks and foundations provide the content and experts, so the news presenters can have an easy time celebrating the rich people. It is a closed loop designed to close off alternatives.”

http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=12327

'Father's Day in the Ghetto'

“Kids coming out of the tough neighborhoods in American cities never learn the basics of behaving in a civilized society. The school don’t bother teaching them much of anything. With no useful role models, even kids with something on the ball are condemned to life in the urban reservation. For boys that means crime and then the cemetery if they are lucky. The unlucky head off to prison. The girls are just baby mills and a conduit to send tax dollars into the ghetto so white liberals can feel special.”

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Thoughts from the last couple of days:

Way long time ago when my wife and I were college, this large-scale living together before marriage thing was all the rage and talk on TV and newspapers. The argument given by all pro-fornicators was, “If you live together before marriage, you will get to know each other and decide if you want to get married.”

By that logic, all couples who lived together and then were married would not get divorced, because they already knew each other’s foibles and strengths.

The real reason people put forth the idea of living together was to give approval to shaking up and fornicating.

So, despite the idea of “We’ll learn about each other,” the number of divorces went up and up and up. A Fox News story this morning said divorced Americans in 1970 made up 2.9% of the population. Today, the number is 9.9%. The numbers are deceiving, though, since not counted were married-divorced-married people.

The Fox story was about people getting pissed off because the Pope said most marriages today are invalid, because men and women going into marriage have no intention of remaining married. Marriage idea of the last 40 years has been, if they do stay married, hey, that’s great, but if they don’t, well, that’s the way things are.

Those go along with the Z Man’s writing that kids never learn the basics of behaving in a civilized society.

If those yoots never learn, doesn’t that mean they were not taught? So, blame parents and grandparents. The yoots are innocent.

Not so, says my wife. The word is out there. She means the “Go into the world and preach the good news …” She is a big proponent of “You live with the choices you make.” And, “You cannot control everything that goes on, but you can decide what your reaction is.”

Free will carries responsibility.

The chatterers

“Today, of course, there is an army of chattering skulls, experts and commenters we see on TV and on-line. Unless you live in one of the guarded combines around Washington or in a swank building in Manhattan, you will never run into these people on the street. They live apart from the rest of us. That’s why they sound like grad students on an anthropology study. They peer out at us and then describe to each other what they think is happening. To them, we’re just talking monkeys in a game park.”

The Umman Manda

http://thezman.com/wordpress/

The Z-Man has a way of finding the central part of a thing and describing the thing in manner accurate and understandable.

I have long contended that the TV heads and other D.C. types talk only to each and pay no mind to those of us outside the circle.

More butchering of the language (and an update)

“When you are paid to write on behalf of a party, your (sic) not a journalist. You are an advocate. When you are an advocate posing as a (sic) independent media, your (sic) are a fraud.”

http://thezman.com/wordpress/

This is infuriating. Someone who maybe gets paid for writing, and he makes fifth-grade mistakes. The Z Man has a habit of talking about African-American intelligence, as in lack of, and yet he continues to write such badly incorrect stuff that his points suffer.

For your own sake, man, read your stuff before posting!

Update

I posted almost all of this at Zman comments. The site author replied with: “Read this,” which was a link to http://gizmodo.com/study-people-who-point-out-typos-are-jerks-1767969516

The site does not say “jerks,” but “Type A a$$holes.”

So the Zman believes I am a Type A a$$hole because I recommend he pay closer attention to editing his copy. At times, I am an a$$hole. I’ve known that for a long time. I became an at-times a$$hole when I got my third stripe and continued with the first and second rockers. As an at-times a$$hole sergeant, I insisted people do the right things the right way. I was even a sometimes a$$hole as a newspaper editor and as a reporter when elected and appointed politicians exceeded their statutory authority.

I will continue to read Zman, and I will become infuriated if easily fixable grammatical mistakes appear in his writings. Zman thinks, which is not in plentiful supply these days.