High Schoolers Cutting Themselves To Feel Something Have No Idea What's Up

 

It's pretty ironic, after Trump's declared a "Golden Age," it mostly winds up referring to embers in the fires.

It's either that or Trump's gaudy redecorating of the White House, which Barack Obama kind-of predicted, though Trump has limited himself to the interior, so far. 

   

David French writes in The New York Times that "America Is No Longer a Stable Country", when - the general consensus is - American never was a stable country. If it was, somebody's got to explain our Israel policy.

Which means our policy of abusing Palestinians, like we abuse ourselves:

“After seeing the chiropractor, I was seeing things and blacking out”? But who told you to go "seeing the chiropractor"? Who told you "seeing the chiropractor" was even a thing to do? Who put "seeing the chiropractor" on your list of choices? Who put "seeing the chiropractor" in your head?

DOO-WAH-DIDDY-DIDDY-DUMB-DIDDY-DOO: "Jane Doe’s testimony adds significant weight to the prosecution’s narrative that Combs operated not merely as a celebrity with eccentric private behavior, but as the leader of a calculated system of abuse and exploitation. Her statements—especially concerning financial dependence, drug use, and the psychological toll of participating in unwanted sexual activities—may prove critical in establishing the intent and criminal enterprise required for conviction under sex trafficking and racketeering laws."

Once Again (It's On)

 

 Homeopathy: An Ongoing Public Health Failure

Many popular fish oil supplements are rancid

Clueless Yellowstone tourist escorted away after challenging bull elk to a fight 

   

 Author, 28, took own life after anxiety became 'entwined' with success 

   

 Ancient Buddha statue worth $1.5 million stolen from Los Angeles art gallery

Family of Black Man Who Died From ‘Medieval Torture’ Receives Millions From State 

  

How often do you think about the Roman Empire?

DEVO-LUTION: A Life In Music Is Funny (Mine Is Anyway)

There was once this band out of Akron, Ohio, who found they wanted to change their sound.

And - while in Los Angeles - they heard that new sound in a kid visiting from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The band went on to write their biggest hit.

But their record company couldn't hear "Whip It" immediately - they rallied around a song called "Girl U Want" and pushed it HARD - but it still flopped. And they blamed the band.

The band didn't know why. DEVO co-founding member, Gerald Casale, recently said:

"I love that song. I guess If Axl Rose covered it, it would have been a No. 1 hit."

Why am I telling you this? Because I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and just happened to work for a radio station.

While there, I also heard someone from Minneapolis, Minnesota who inspired me to explore music further. 

And, once I did, wouldn't you know comparisons started being made to Axl Rose? 

I just want to tell DEVO to blame their record company: despite the fans loving it, using "Girl U Want" as the middle eighth to one of my songs didn't do shit for my career, either. 

What's The Diff Between Dems And Rs? Dems Show Up

Note to CPAC - never invite A Real Black Man™, on a panel at CPAC, or the discriminatory stereotypes just won't work:

“It bothers me when people assume that lower-income people respond to gifts. Food stamps, or things that are given to them. Nobody wants to be dependent. So let’s assume that people want a hand up, and not a handout.”

Woodson, the founder of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, then cited the example of Republican former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. “He built a community center that taught kids English …” said Woodson. “He committed resources and help to us, so we supported him.” He added, “What liberals do is at least they express their concern. Whether what they do is helpful or harmful, at least they show up.”

CPAC will claim he's giving the ol' "race hustle" another go, I guess,...

Preying On The Sick And Dying Is How NewAge Grew

Mothering with malicious misinformation.

  AIDS gave Louise Hay a following.

Dead bodies everywhere.

  Marianne Williamson developed a large following, particularly among Los Angeles’s gay community, which was then being ravaged by the initial outbreak of AIDS.

Coinkidink?

I hate being reminded of the NewAge vultures back then,…

 

Forgive - But Never Forget (Forget - But Never Forgive)

Speaking before a group of college students at Palm Beach Atlantic University on Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas bemoaned how “sensitive” Americans have become over issues of race and other markers of social “difference.”…

That’s not to say that Thomas has forgotten those who have abused him, however,...

“The worst I have been treated was by northern liberal elites,” Thomas said. “The absolute worst I have ever been treated. The worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me — by northern liberal elites,....”

"This is the point where he is coming to kill me, coming to beat me. He made it quite clear what his intentions were."

"Drapetomania is from draptise. A runaway slave is mania mad or crazy. It is unknown to our medical authorities, although its well known to our planters and overseers. The cause that induces the Negro to run away from service is curable as a general rule. With the advantages of proper medical advice strictly followed, this troublesome practice can be almost entirely prevented,...."

The Great Migration: Creating a New Black Identity in Los Angeles

"In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate."

Have Blacks Made Shows Only To Make Fun Of Whites?

Despite the fact that an average of 14.6 million Americans tune in each week to track the adventures of the Robertson family when you count DVR recordings, I've never understood the appeal. For me, the question isn't why Phil Robertson was suspended. The real mystery is why he and his family -- who run a successful business making supplies for duck hunters -- have a television show in the first place.

I have a theory. Here is what you need to keep in mind as you waddle through this controversy: The reason that "Duck Dynasty" is on television is to make liberal studio executives at A&E, and parent company Disney feel superior, while making big profits for the studio.

The Robertsons are on television so that people in New York and Los Angeles -- the kind of folks who refer to anyplace in between as "flyover country" -- can feel progressive and enlightened by comparing themselves to simple country folks in Louisiana who, according to the elites, are neither. (And can make lots of money doing so.)

"Duck Dynasty' is this era's ode to "Amos 'n' Andy." In that show -- which aired on radio and television from the 1920s through the 1960s and which was created, written and produced by white people -- Americans were given the opportunity to laugh at African-Americans, adding insult to the injury that this group of citizens was already sustaining before the civil rights movement.

Now, Americans have a new group to laugh at -- a self-described "bunch of rednecks from Louisiana."

I'm with you 100% except for one difference - however they're portrayed, Duck Dynasty signed up for the heckling of themselves and others like them:

There wasn't nothing "reality television" about Amos & Andy,...

 

Glenn Reynolds Is The Right's Race-Baiting Blogfather

He's promoting some other gun-toting yahoo, going on about "Apartheid Santa in Los Angeles,” like they forgot the most important thing that spurred apartheid:

The evil whites on the other side of the divide. 

You know, like blacks weren't just minding our own business (black Santas aren't a new phenom in Los Angeles as Glenn and the lunatic imply) when Megyn Kelly decided she just had to inform the nation, and world, of white supremacy's point-of-view. 

No, no, no - all of this is reflective of black racism, you see: 

 Including me saying Fuck Glenn Reynolds.

There ARE evil whites on the other side of this divide,...

 

How It "Works"

“So many people were drunk and partying. People were chanting, clapping, filming and taking pictures like it was some kind of cool, funny thing and not realizing it was a guy who was suffering in a really bad condition.”

Those Damned Kids

“All in all, it was a bad week of press for Los Angeles cops. One L.A. police lieutenant was arrested for soliciting a prostitute, and another officer has been temporarily relieved of duty after firing his gun in an effort to scare some kids who were bothering him.”

Insecure FWBs Pretending They're Bucking The System

Reading this, for me, is almost like sex:

Rebecca Gowns, a 25-year-old freelance editor from Los Angeles, says queer women like herself are drawn to the occult because they “seek outside validation” but don’t want to be talked down to by priests and pastors. Astrologers and psychics are more like trusted, nonjudgmental friends.

I do like being right,...

 

"We've Structured Society Wrong" Is A Difficult Concept

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, disorder -- most particularly the furious, unrestrained lashing out at the whole social structure -- that is not only to be expected; it is very near to inevitable. And it is richly deserved.

They Don't See Nothin', They Don't Know Nothin', They,..

Another report you won't find on other conservative websites:

  A new report on the Los Angeles Sheriff Department Canine Special Detail finds that the number of minority individuals bitten by police dogs has dramatically increased between 2004 to 2012. In a department already plagued by accusations of racial targeting, 100 percent of dog bite victims in the first six months of 2013 were blacks and Latinos.

In the past nine years, the minority-heavy, urban areas of Century, City of Industry, Compton, Lakewood, and South LA/Lennox, experienced more dog bites than 21 other agencies or stations combined. 

That's my hometown. Question:

Why can't I regularly find news on blacks on conservative websites? 

I mean, I can find stories on my own - why don't conservatives generally serve them? And even if they're claiming to be colorblind - a claim I won't buy since Trayvon - aren't there blacks out there doing things worth covering? Don't blacks die? Make contributions? 

Why the black-out?

 

L.A. Scam Artist Finds A Scam Worthy Of His Efforts

Latinos are upset because they never thought a man of his integrity would choose to work for a pyramid scheme:

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been named Senior Advisor to Herbalife's Chairman and CEO, Michael O. Johnson and the company's board of directors. 

Obviously, cheating on his wife while in office wasn't clue enough,...

 

Cultism's Career Counseling (But Without Being Asked)

This is my pal, Jeff Davies, of San Francisco's infamous Brian Jonestown Massacre. One band that was singing about cultism long before I ever noticed it's influence on me or society. 

Jeffy works in an L.A. cafe' now. I'm not surprised: 

That's where NewAgers think such awareness should land us,...

 

"Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City": Christian Cinema - In Sound

Ooooh, see, listen. This is a pretty good Rap album from 2012 - and my hometown. Practically a documentary of a young guy, purely by circumstance, having to desperately try to stay alive in the killing field he was raised in and loves. Weird, I know. Being an atheist, I don't agree with it, right from the beginning, but I'll be damned if I don't respect this representation of the world, as readily as Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon.

Yes, it's that good, sometimes. 

A new-to-Rap listener tip:

Kendrick Lamar's a wordsmith, down with Dr. Dre, so I suggest headphones and your full attention:

A poet living life and death can trick you, and actually get deep,... 

It's A Church And A Religion And A Crime Against God

I've got a nagging feeling - once Scientology is cracked - the entire NewAge framework will be,too:

With just days before a court order will force the Church of Scientology to turn over thousands of pages of evidence in Laura DeCrescenzo’s lawsuit alleging abuse during her employment in the church’s “Sea Org” — including an abortion she says was forced on her when she was only 17 — Scientology has applied to the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay to stop the lawsuit in its tracks. 

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald Sohigian has already decided that DeCrescenzo is entitled to her own “pc files” — confessional material that was compiled while she worked for the church from only nine years of age, joining the Sea Org at twelve and then finally leaving it at 25 in 2004. Scientology has appealed and lost that decision twice, most recently at the California Supreme Court. Now, Scientology wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review that state supreme court decision, but in the meantime, it wants an emergency stay to freeze the case so the church doesn’t have to turn over the documents on July 2.

Stay tuned: 

 This "Independence Day" could take on a whole new meaning,...

ADDED: 

 I wasn't going to write about Ann Althouse today but - a quick look-see over there - and she's gone delusional again, furiously defending Scientology's forced abortions, by proxy, to her readers. Right and wrong are all about feelings on "the path", you know. You know "the path." 

 I feel - almost daily - what a truly awful human being (and lawyer) Ann can be,...