“An elementary school in Anne Arundel County closed early Friday because animal control couldn’t catch a feral cat in the building.
The scandal enveloping England right now, is 1400 girls have been sexually abused and raped, but the local authorities did nothing because they didn’t want to look racist. The BBC reports on this, but refuses to mention the racial aspect. You may not want to read this on a full stomach. 1 2 3
That and 1400 is probably conservative and there is evidence that this is not limited or unique to Rotherham. The authorities guilty have taken responsibility for this by resigning.
(Hint: when you screw up that badly, that is not taking responsibility. This is.)
Meanwhile, Billy Joel was criticized in his tribute to the late Robin Williams, for including a very tame “racist” joke and a frat is facing Title IX violations for a dancing teletubby.
In other news, on Monday, Beyonce performed a sexually suggestive performance at the VMAs, that involved an abundance of butts, scantily-clad women spread-eagle, and lewd lyrics. But she also put up a sign in lights that said Feminist, so she was applauded. The next night, at the Emmys (no, I don’t watch these things) Sofia Vergara in a full length classy dress stood on a platform as a bit of a joke. This was decried as sexist and objectifying.
I could go on, and I could certainly provide more links. What concerns me (above and beyond the actual tragedies) is how distorted things are to the World. They can not tell up from down.
And so will we if we do not keep the commandments.
I liked it better when we didn’t pretend actors had core competencies beyond pretending to be other people and having amusingly disastrous personal lives.
–Pseudonymous commenter at Instapundit
Vast majority of arrests in Ferguson are of persons who turn out not to be residents of Ferguson.
h/t to the commenter who supplied the post title.
What really surprises me is that the indictment hasn’t already been quashed.
When Moses began laying heavy plagues on Egypt, the priests of Pharaoh were able to explain it away, at least at first. This is seen in the Book of Mormon where people begin to explain away the prophecies, as mere guesses. Similarly, we are told that when Christ comes, the sign of his coming will be explained away as merely a comet, planet, etc. This is often seen with respect to miracles and curses.
I never expected to see that excuse making in myself. (more…)
His Majesty: “Finally, a use for opera.”
I’m rather fond of it myself. I wonder if it is revealing that His Majesty’s artistic interests are confined almost entirely to the abstranct and nonrepresentational. It was precisely the other way with Adolph Hitler.
Although his tastes run towards highly abstract art. Symbolic art he tends to dismiss with a snort of disgust, rather as J.R.R. Tolkien was dismissive of literary allegory.
(And I can’t believe I just compared His Majesty to J.R.R. Tolkien. I feel like I need to go scrub my mouth out.)
This morning, over breakfast, he had this to say: “Rather rude of those German artists to preempt the Obama administration.”
It seems His Majesty is as contemptuous of symbolic politics as he is of symbolic art and allegorical literature. Which, come to think of it, sometimes seem like they’re all the same thing.
I don’t recall ever hearing him express an opinion on religious symbolism. He is not a believer, naturally, and I’m not sure I want to broach the topic.
I just got an email, here in my office at Death Star, Inc, asking me if I wanted any wafer quotes.
We don’t manufacture consumer electronics here.
I am tempted to write back that, no, I don’t want any wafer quotes; I’m not even Catholic.
Might be too irreverent, though. I would not want my Catholic friends to mistake this for mocking the Sacred Host.