Archive of entries posted on August 2021

I Know It’s Not The Babylon Bee, But It’s Still One of the Funniest Things Ever Published

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Ontario Activists Claim Ravines Are Racist
Post Millennial | April 22, 2021 | Roberto Wakerell-Cruz

A new analysis by The Globe and Mail‘s Urban Affairs reporter and Architecture Critic argues that race, gender, and economic status “can all be barriers” to Toronto’s free and publicly accessible green spaces.

The article asserts that Toronto’s ravines are only accepting of people’s different backgrounds and income levels “in theory,” and cites the case of black outdoorswoman Jacqueline L. Scott, who says that the lack of diverse faces makes it less likely for people of colour to go to green spaces—something that is sometimes called a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The article argues that concerns around [?] representation discourage “racialized people” [??] living near ravines from using their public backyards, and that hurdles such as a “lack of signs indicating where to enter a ravine” remain in place. [!!]

Ah HA HA HA!

Another barrier, according to University of Toronto doctoral student Ambika Tenneti, is that “people of colour communities like to sit and chat around,” an activity that is difficult to do in ravines, which are “generally trails.”

“You just have to walk and there’s no place to sit down or anything,” she says.

The Globe and Mail piece also lacks in originality.

A recent Los Angeles Times article also argued that “longtime oppression and historical barriers” were responsible for keeping people of colour “from feeling comfortable in American outdoors.”

Ah-HA HA HA! Stop it! Ba ha ha hah hah hahah !!!

You’re killing me!

Oh. That’s the idea.

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Intelligence Failure

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Biden in today’s press conference on Afghanistan:

“We know of no circumstance where Americans can’t get to the airport.”

That one sums up the entire administration. And press, since there was no follow-up question.

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What’s up.

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TGIF everyone, hope you got great plans for the weekend.

Speaking of great plans I want to take this opportunity to let you know of a new upcoming contest that will be premiering soon. Well as soon as I get it all together and ready.

You may remember this poll.

This poll is no longer accepting votes

Which do you prefer?
Vote

I know you do because you are the best, simply the best. Here is what I have planned.

I am going to set up a single elimination tournament for individual songs. The time period to be covered are the 1950s through the 2000s. It will cover Rock ‘n Roll and Country and Western. It will cover a lot ground. I hope to give you a week to vote and have two days a week for the contest. Right now that looks to be Wednesday and Friday. Hopefully that will work.

Further my plan is to use Billboard charts for the base of choosing the songs. Unless anyone can suggest a better starting point.

Now I know there are other styles out there like R&B, Jazz, Gospel and Rap but I am not really interested in including them as this is already going to be a huge list to start without them. But, if I can sense a desire for them, I will revisit that decision.

So, what do you guys think? Worth the effort?

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Thursday Night Open Thread: When Orson Welles Met Hitler

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Provocative title, no?

It’s true. Welles met Hitler:

When Orson Welles Met Adolf Hitler
Mental Floss | May 6, 2020 | Jake Rossen

Appearing on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970, Welles shared details of an encounter he had with another highly recognizable face—Adolf Hitler. But according to Welles, the meeting was mostly forgettable.

Welles attended a dinner function with history’s most infamous monster at the behest of his Austrian hiking instructor. At the time, Welles said the Nazi party was a “minority party of nuts” that “nobody took seriously at all.” Hitler himself “made so little an impression on me that I can’t remember a second of it.”

The dictator, he added, “had no personality whatsoever … I think there was nothing there.”

In another appearance with Cavett, Welles described meeting Winston Churchill, a far more pleasant memory. Churchill attended Othello in London, and then went backstage to meet Welles and proceeded to recite all the actor’s lines from memory.

Also, Welles gives a fine tribute to George Marshall. It’s a 12-minute video (some computer jargon wouldn’t let me display it here, but it’s at the Mental Floss website). It’s full of interesting commentary, and laughs from the audience. I wish we had a show on today like Dick Cavett’s. It would probably be all woke and broke, though.

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Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s our nightly Open Thread, and you have the floor.

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They’re Sophisticated

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‘’Only the sick governing elites can look you in the eye with a straight face and force experimental injections on u because masks didn’t work while simultaneously forcing masks on you because the injections didn’t work.’’

— David Horowitz

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