"Feminists have no idea that some women like to flirt with danger because there is a sizzle in it. You know what gets me sick and tired? The battered-woman motif. It’s so misrepresented, the way we have to constantly look at it in terms of male oppression and tyranny, and female victimization. When, in fact, everyone knows throughout the history of the world that many of these working-class relationships where women get beat up have hot sex. They ask why won’t she leave him? Maybe she won’t leave him because the sex is very hot."  –Camile Paglia

"It has been said by much wiser people than me that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Well, what I’ve seen during my time in Washington is that every party in power will always want to exercise absolute power, absolutely."  -Joe Manchin

“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”  -Milan Kundera

"Saying the ends of the political spectrum are Communism and Fascism is like saying the ends of the sex spectrum are dudes and Caitlyn Jenner."

I watched The Sands of Iwo Jima.  It was the best war movie I've ever seen:  It had a moral depth not found in more modern, essentially pacifist war movies.

"I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living. I'd like to know why they make excuses for cowards who spit in the faces of the police and then run behind the judicial sob sisters. I can't understand these people who carry placards to save the life of some criminal, yet have no thought for the innocent victim.”  -John Wayne

"I want men like the lieutenant in Libya who, with a Luger against his chest, swept aside the gun with his hand, jerked his helmet off with the other and busted the hell out of the Boche with the helmet. Then he picked up the gun and he killed another German. All this time the man had a bullet through his lung. That's a man for you!"  -George Patton

The glory to be found in war isn't found in dying.  It's by killing bad guys.  Without people who have killed bad guys, the world would be unlivable.

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."  -George Patton

In the early 20'th century, there was an ethnicity responsible for a lot of mayhem. These people would shoot police, mow down civilians, deal drugs, and never cooperate with investigations.

But back then, we knew it was their culture that was the problem. There was no "Italian Lives Matter."

“I feel like what I imagine women feel like” is not the same sentence as “I am a woman.”

Why didn’t the left “solve” anorexia like they have trans? Why is there no “gender” for weight (ie. By which a woman who’s 80 pounds can demand you agree she’s fat the way trans can currently demand “she”)? In 20 years psych went from treating the patient to treating the well.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.  -Eric Hoffer

Both the BBC and CNN have had reporters voice strong support for... Hitler.  That's more than a little fascinating.

A woman has escaped China with tales of the concentration camp in which they held her.  Her stories are hard to believe.  But I believe most them because one lesson of the past 100 years is:  Don't underestimate Communist evil.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.  -Eric Hoffer

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/24/we-need-to-talk-about-those-journalists-who-praised-hitler/

https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/24/chinese-concentration-camp-survivor-reveals-torture-rape-and-plans-for-invading-europe/

At Bennington, I would go to a faculty meeting and be aware that everyone hated me. The men were appalled by a strong, loud woman. But I went to this auto shop and the men there thought I was cute. "Oh, there's that Professor Paglia from the college." The real men, men who work on cars, find me cute. They are not frightened by me, no matter how loud I am. But the men at the college were terrified because they are eunuchs, and I threatened every goddamned one of them.  -Camile Paglia

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts  -Camile Paglia

I'm going to talk about how women are different from men.  In some ways better, in some ways worse.

Knowing these differences can save your life savings one day, fwiw (looking at you Elizabeth Holmes)

“For boys it’s very much about telling a story of the good guy killing the villain. There’s a winner and a loser,” Tania Missad, Mattel's director of global consumer insights, said. “Girls wanted the action and the battle, but would tell us: ‘Why does the good girl have to kill the villain? Can’t they be friends in the end?’"

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.  -Camile Paglia

Sylvia Bennett-Stone's daughter was murdered.  But BLM doesn't say anything about it because, in her opinion, they can't fundraise off of her case.  Why?  The wrong race/profession killed her daughter.

“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.”  -Eric Hoffer

The media do not report on Hamas evil, going so far as to share an office building with them.  The media is hopelessly corrupt, willing to stifle any reporting in exchange for the drip-drip-drip of content from the source.  They were quiet about Harvey Weinstein, about Tiger Woods, about Bill Gates, about Hamas.

Why are Palestinians beloved by the left, but not the Kurds, the Tibetans, the Uyghurs, or the Chechens?  Alan Dershowitz says it's because they oppose Jews.  And that's hard to argue with.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.  -Eric Hoffer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_4Ohw_ulRw

https://nypost.com/2021/05/17/if-ap-really-didnt-know-it-shared-space-with-hamas-why-trust-its-reporting/

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/553873-why-does-the-hard-left-glorify-the-palestinians?rl=1

"Lockdowns were the underclasses and blue collar people serving the needs of the upper classes.  We had no choice.  Pats head, "you're essential.  How special."  It was only our personal lives they wanted to lockdown.  You can work in the factory and deliver our food but you will not unwind with a beer after work and you definitely won't be having family over for Christmas."  -antihero_kate

"The liberal assumption, in this as in most things, is that to understand is to approve (or at least to pardon), and therefore my disapproval indicated a lack of understanding."  –Theodore Dalrymple

“As a black woman in America, I am no stranger to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence.”  -Ayanna Pressley

"Is the criticism of Israel here explained by the bitter old conclusion that the world likes dead Jews (and their paintings) more than living Jews who are fighting for their rights?"  -Elliott Abrams

“Cowards die many times before their deaths,

The valiant never taste of death but once.”  -William Shakespeare

https://nypost.com/2021/05/13/far-left-house-democrats-break-with-biden-blast-israel-in-speeches/>

https://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-beliefs-about-sharia/

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/israel-erupts-cutting-through-the-misinformation-surrounding-part-of-this-conflict/

"My introduction to aviation was Nov. 1958 when my family moved from California to New York. We flew on a TWA Constellation direct LAX to Idlewild Airport (now JFK). Being 8 years old, I got to go up to the cockpit and for a few minutes I sat on the co-pilot's lap (as we flew over the Grand Canyon!). I asked if I could flip a switch on the overhead panel and they let me. Have been an aviation geek since"  -mfrmorrobay

"The Biden administration is defining businesses owned by “socially and economically disadvantaged” individuals as those who are:

• Part of an “economically disadvantaged Indian tribe”
• “Subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias”
• Black American
• Hispanic American
• Native American, including Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian
• Asian Pacific American
• Subcontinent Asian American"

"Bear all of that in mind the next time someone name-drops Holmes and cites Schenck as part of a broad endorsement of censorship. The problem isn't that they're incorrectly citing Holmes. The problem is that they are citing him exactly right, for the vague, censorious, and fortunately long-departed "standard" he articulated."  -Popehat

A blue checkmark says America is not having kids because we can't afford them.  The problem?  All the data disagrees with that.

"I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine."  ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/04/biden-coronavirus-relief-prioritizes-funds-for-non-white-business-owners/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-hackneyed-apologia-for-censorship-are-enough/

https://twitter.com/tanzinavega/status/1389893009874071552

“It has been called the nanny state, but that is far too kind a term.  It is too cold, too cruel, too implacable, to illiberal to be a nanny.  It is the Nurse Ratched state.  Government has created a brutal system of mandated behaviorism, in which the state uses its immense powers to force targeted citizens to ‘voluntarily’ accept a violation of their rights… The efforts to sustain affirmative action rest on these coercive methods.  So, too, do the efforts to enforce the decree that private workplaces be free of discriminatory, harassing, or even rude behavior.  The intrusions resulting from the Americans with Disabilities Act have mutated beyond sanity… Nursie knows best.”  -Michael Kelly

The Biden Administration has formally announced it supports destroying the property rights to the COVID vaccine.  This is catastrophically shortsighted and bad policy.

"Ninety percent of all Black Americans who smoke smoke menthol cigarettes."  -FDA Center for Tobacco Products head Mitch Zeller, explaining why he's banning something just because black people like it.

“Every time the government tries to make life better for you, it uses force.  It makes criminals out of people who are not criminals.  Some poor mope who would like a large-size toilet in his house has to go out and smuggle one.  The guy who smokes a cigarette down the hall from you at his desk alone in his office with the door closed is a criminal.  Some mother who wants to talk to her 12-year-old in the front seat is a criminal also.  All these people are criminals now.  That’s us.  Why do they have the right to make all of us criminals because we smoke, or want to have our kids sit next to us in the car?”  -Michael Kelly

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/05/us-backs-covid-vaccine-intellectual-property-waivers-to-expand-access-to-shots-worldwide.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/30/992298635/food-and-drug-administration-moves-to-ban-menthol-cigarettes