Uri Harris on the ideological hegemony of the social sciences:
[In a survey of the political preferences of social psychologists,] there were almost as many people who chose the furthest possible point to the left as there were who chose all the conservative points, the centre-point and the most moderate left-of-centre point combined… People that freely self-identify as far-left in the abstract, in other words irrespective of specific political issues, seem to me to be signalling something: that they are committed to an ideology. The fact that such a large portion of the most influential people in academic social psychology do so suggests that this ideology is entrenched in their field.
Which in turn suggests that what they’re actually doing may not in fact be science.
Franklin Einspruch on free speech and the prattle of Lindy West:
West possesses a mysterious gift of psychic progressivism that lets her see into the hearts of men and unearth the real intentions behind their stated ones. Or so it would seem. These men are only pretending to care about freedom of speech, for example. They really want to harass marginalised people for having opinions… “They’re weaponising free speech to maintain their cultural dominance,” she says, obsequiously quoting Anita Sarkeesian, another psychic progressive. That flushing noise you hear is the sound of productive dialogue disappearing into the rhetorical toilet. Identitarians like West have never grasped that it is impossible to found a good-faith discussion on bad-faith premises such as these… The irony of [West’s] essay is that its main point – that all this defence of free speech is really about deflecting criticism – is coming out of a camp of left-identitarianism that spent much of the last decade answering criticism with charges of bigotry.
When not deliberately knocking sleeping passengers with her in-flight luggage and boasting about it in articles for feminist publications, and then complaining that no-one wants to sit next to her on a plane, Ms West, a “fat activist,” shares videos of herself eating biscuits.
And Ace’s CBD on the obliviousness of the protesting class:
At the Impeach Trump March in Chicago 7/2/17, a group of protesters applaud a speech comprised almost entirely of Adolf Hitler quotes given by Shad Daley. This was 20 seconds after saying they need to fight fascism. After the speech, the organising member of refusefascism.org was desperate to get Shad more involved.
As usual, feel free to share your own links and snippets, on any subject, in the comments.
After the speech, the organising member of refusefascism.org was desperate to get Shad more involved.
LOL
Posted by: Clam | July 10, 2017 at 07:37
And Ace’s CBD on the obliviousness of the protesting class:
Somewhat Related
I haven't seen any of this reported by the MSM.
Posted by: Jonathan | July 10, 2017 at 07:56
“They’re weaponising free speech to maintain their cultural dominance,”
They're weaponizing victimhood to maintain their cultural dominance.
Posted by: sH2 | July 10, 2017 at 08:25
a group of protesters applaud a speech comprised almost entirely of Adolf Hitler quotes
Top trolling. :-)
Posted by: Sam | July 10, 2017 at 10:44
Slightly OT but why do so many Americans pronounce Adolf as A-rhymes-with-day-dolf? I've always found it a bit odd.
Posted by: George | July 10, 2017 at 11:59
Thanks for the feature. Despite West's July 2 announcement that she was to be a "weekly columnist (well, Contributing Opinion Writer) for the New York Times," the weekend passed mercifully free of new Lindy West writings and now I'm not sure what's going on with her status there. I would apologize for the confusion but I don't think I caused it.
Posted by: Franklin | July 10, 2017 at 12:48
the weekend passed mercifully free of new Lindy West writings
The suspense is unbearable.
Posted by: David | July 10, 2017 at 12:51
"According to journalist, activist and feminist Laurie Penny, it's toxic masculinity that's killing the world."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08x4rdz
Posted by: Joan | July 10, 2017 at 13:07
“According to journalist, activist and feminist Laurie Penny, it’s toxic masculinity that’s killing the world.”
It’s always a pleasure to hear Laurie telling us, repeatedly, just how “radical,” “challenging” and “threatening” she is. As one does.
Posted by: David | July 10, 2017 at 13:24
Laurie's working hard to make you guys behave.
Posted by: Pogonip | July 10, 2017 at 13:24
From the BBC link about our Laurie:
There's a new collection of her writing out now called 'Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults'. She joins Jane to discuss.
What's best for skin? Cleanse, tone and moisturise? Or cleanse, serum and moisturise? Facialist, Abigail James, has some suggestions.
" How to be a clueless, leftist bitch but still have great looking skin."
Posted by: Jonathan | July 10, 2017 at 13:27
Regarding Harris:
With all due respect, I believe we have found the missing 26-37% from the "[R]ecent surveys".
Not really, the proper response to all social "science" and the practitioners of those dismal arts is just to point, laugh, and ignore.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 10, 2017 at 13:42
Laurie’s working hard to make you guys behave.
What’s remarkable is that in 10 years or so, and despite a free year of study at Harvard, she hasn’t gotten any better at it. It’s still a series of bald pronouncements and almost random incantations – “toxic masculinity” and “rape culture” being but two of them. There’s always the pretence of immense dangerousness and outsider status, despite all evidence to the contrary. And every time, there’s an air of crisis, of some vast and unprecedented social transformation, usually based on something that her friends said or tweeted. As if her own, rather uniform social circle were the sum total of all possibility. And note just how rarely she’s pressed on any of this, or asked to substantiate anything she says.
Posted by: David | July 10, 2017 at 13:59
Having read Franklin Einspruch's article, I agree with it entirely - but he misses an essential point of the SJW; they don't want a productive discourse. THEY are RIGHT and WE are WRONG { - just ask them - } and their sole desire is to Trigglypuff that into your face until you shut up and leave them in unchallenged possession of the podium.
"And I don't want a debate. I want to talk about my pain." - Oh and, they want a law passed that we MUST listen.
Posted by: Y. Knott | July 10, 2017 at 14:06
a group of protesters applaud a speech comprised almost entirely of Adolf Hitler quotes given by Shad Daley
Oh I do hope this becomes a thing.
Posted by: Eagle | July 10, 2017 at 14:45
That Uri Harris piece is -exactly- what I wanted to explain the Hugo Awards hard turn to the Left. It's genius.
Back in the mists of time, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth and TV was black and white, I took my degree in Anthropology. At that time, the late 1970's, I could see that things were not progressing logically. Nobody in Anthropology was interested in measuring anything. It was all Marxism, and Post Modernism was begining to rise as an issue. The big uproar that made my decision was E.O. Wilson's landmark book, "Sociobiology."
Quite apart from the book, the -reception- to it was unprecedented. People didn't argue about the contents of the book. There was plenty to argue about, and I published a paper about it, but the books opponents didn't do that. They attacked Dr. Wilson directly. They went after him in public. They disrupted his lectures, they threw stuff at him, they attacked him -personally- in books and magazines.
My initial instinct was confirmed by the Suzuki/Rushton "debate" where blowhard Dr. David Suzuki publicly vilified Dr. Philippe Rushton for having the gall to write "The Bell Curve." Again, there's plenty to argue against in The Bell Curve, Rushton's theory has holes you can drive a bus through. But that's not what his detractors did. They essentially forbade discussion of the subject.
Fast forward to today, working at a university is getting to be a tightrope walk while balancing teacups, across a flaming pit. One wrong move and your career is kaput. People must be silently freaking out in schools across the nation.
I made the right call becoming a house painter instead of an Anthropology professor. The money was about the same (oh yes, it was!) and I still have all my marbles.
This "purity spiral" exactly describes what's been going on in my favorite genre, science fiction. Publishers tend to chase awards, and awards are increasingly decided by Leftists. Hard Leftists, who think Stalin was on the right track but didn't go far enough. This has gone on to the point where any sort of non-Leftist themes are simply not being published by Big 5 houses.
The thing Harris describes is the mechanism that creates our present environment. Very satisfying ideas.
Posted by: The Phantom | July 10, 2017 at 14:45
Just wanted to try this out.
Posted by: Jonathan | July 10, 2017 at 15:54
Philippe Rushton did not write The Bell Curve.
Posted by: Geezer | July 10, 2017 at 16:05
Phantom - Rushton wrote "Race, Evolution, and Behavior;" Herrnstein and Murray wrote "The Bell Curve." They came out about the same time in the mid-90s, so it's easy to misremember. I do recall accounts of the 'debate' between Rushton the fruit-fly guy, and it did boil down to 'you're not allowed to ask that question.'
Posted by: dcardno | July 10, 2017 at 16:38
Just wanted to try this out.
For reasons that escape me, the spam filter snagged it.
Bad spam filter.
[ Beats spam filter with rolled-up newspaper. ]
Posted by: David | July 10, 2017 at 16:42
a group of protesters applaud a speech comprised almost entirely of Adolf Hitler quotes
Woke.
Posted by: Alice | July 10, 2017 at 16:45
Hi Phantom, you aren't by any chance referring to the Hugo awards, are you? Of which I had never heard until science fiction writers and fans began battling over them, so much so that some of the writers began blogging about it, which is how I found out about it.
Posted by: Pogonip | July 10, 2017 at 16:48
Woke.
Heh.
Posted by: David | July 10, 2017 at 16:55
For reasons that escape me, the spam filter snagged it.
Thanks David, you really should upgrade to a steam-powered filter.
Posted by: Jonathan | July 10, 2017 at 16:55
why do so many Americans pronounce Adolf as A-rhymes-with-day-dolf? I've always found it a bit odd.
Probably from wartime propaganda, especially things like Warner Bros cartoons, where it was pronounced that way, presumably as a form of mockery, and it stuck.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | July 10, 2017 at 18:03
why do so many Americans pronounce Adolf as A-rhymes-with-day-dolf?
Don’t get me started on niche or aluminium.
Posted by: David | July 10, 2017 at 18:07
and it stuck
Oddly enough, I find I always pronounce Hitler's name as "AY-dolf", but others with that name as "AH-dolf", like one of Hitler's Luftwaffe generals, Adolf Galland - who I found to be a very charming fellow, btw.
(sorry for the shameless name-dropping)
Posted by: Spiny Norman | July 10, 2017 at 18:13
Woke up this morning
Felt around for my shoes
Woke up this morning
Felt around for my shoes
I feel so bad
Got them hetetopatriarchal blues
Posted by: Pogonip | July 10, 2017 at 18:28
Don’t get me started on niche or aluminium.
Here's what the folks at Merriam-Webster have to say:
Posted by: Geezer | July 10, 2017 at 19:01
Here’s what the folks at Merriam-Webster have to say
I’m sensing tension in the room. It could kick off at any moment.
[ Reaches under bar, fingers revolver. ]
Posted by: David | July 10, 2017 at 19:08
[ Reaches under bar, fingers revolver. ]
Let's call the whole thing off.
Posted by: Geezer | July 10, 2017 at 19:19
:: clears throat ::
singing
You say eether and I say eyether,
You say neether and I say nyther;
Eether, eyether, neether, nyther,
Let's call the whole thing off!
You like potato and I like potahto,
You like tomato and I like tomahto;
Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto!
Let's call the whole thing off!
:: ducks ::
Posted by: Spiny Norman | July 10, 2017 at 19:25
[ Mutters under breath. ]
Goddamn heathens from the colonies, coming over here with their savage ways and their total bollocksing of the Queen’s tongue.
[ Pours large one to steady nerves. ]
Posted by: David | July 10, 2017 at 19:35
[ Pours large one to steady nerves. ]
I'll drink to that.
Posted by: Geezer | July 10, 2017 at 19:38
... there were almost as many people who chose the furthest possible point to the left as there were who chose all the conservative points, the centre-point and the most moderate left-of-centre point combined
Ahem:
Freshman enrolment ... has fallen by more than 35 percent in the two years since [the campus protests].
Before the protests, the university ... was experiencing steady growth and building new dormitories [but now] the university is temporarily closing seven dormitories and cutting more than 400 positions.
Students of all races have shunned [the university], the drop in freshman enrollment last fall was strikingly higher among blacks, at 42 percent, than among whites, at 21 percent.
By sheer numbers, the drop in white students has caused the greatest damage, since they make up a majority of those on campus.
Tyler Morris, a white student from St. Louis, said he was afraid of being stereotyped as a bigot
Somewhat apposite.
Posted by: Nikw211 | July 10, 2017 at 19:49
They do say fools rush in ...
Posted by: Nikw211 | July 10, 2017 at 19:59
They do say fools rush in ...
Heh.
Posted by: David | July 10, 2017 at 21:00
Once again, the perfidious French. If that isn't a good enough argument for Brexit, nothing is.
Posted by: Farnsworth M. Muldoon | July 10, 2017 at 22:17
Before the 1990s, academic psychology only LEANED left. Liberals and Democrats outnumbered Conservatives and Republican by 4 to 1 or less.
Interesting definition of "leaned". In most other places, a 4 to 1 superiority is considered decisive.
Posted by: Richard Cranium | July 10, 2017 at 22:48
I want to say this is a fine, fun site and I'm delighted I found it.
(That ought to keep David from yammering on about that twenty bucks I owe him.)
Posted by: Pogonip | July 11, 2017 at 02:26
[ Reaches under bar, fingers revolver. ]
Um. revolver, or revolver?
Posted by: Hal | July 11, 2017 at 02:31
(That ought to keep David from yammering on about that twenty bucks I owe him.)
No Refunds, Credit Note Only
Posted by: Hal | July 11, 2017 at 02:34
I have a no-refund policy too; that's why I haven't refunded David that $20! 😄
Posted by: Pogonip | July 11, 2017 at 02:57
Oh yeah? Well it's JAG-wahr, not JAG-you-wahr.
[ exits, stage left ]
Posted by: WTP | July 11, 2017 at 03:05
Oh dear, now you've done it...
[ downs his Boddington's, tips the publican, slides out the door ]
Posted by: Spiny Norman | July 11, 2017 at 03:33
Mark Steyn.
Posted by: David | July 11, 2017 at 07:00
And I do like the notion of a “social justice warrior locust storm.”
Posted by: David | July 11, 2017 at 07:09
This just in: Apparently, “biological sex” isn’t “inherent in nature.”
Posted by: David | July 11, 2017 at 08:41
Unfortunately Farnsworth it seems as though social "science" practitioners have the ear of government everywhere and are trying, and occasionally succeeding, in making their unfounded beliefs into law. To paraphrase Trotsky, you may not be interested in the SJW\government complex but the SJW\government complex is interested in you.
Posted by: Tom | July 11, 2017 at 09:52
This just in: Apparently, “biological sex” isn’t “inherent in nature.”
I clicked and it was like stepping into a right hook of ignorance.
How on earth can the trans and feminist movements stay aloft when they're fueled by this level of sheer stupidity?
Posted by: Burnsie | July 11, 2017 at 10:51
I clicked and it was like stepping into a right hook of ignorance.
You’d think that being trans would be a big enough hill to climb, a big enough challenge to one’s sanity, without compounding the situation with dogmatic unrealism.
Posted by: David | July 11, 2017 at 11:31
You’d think that being trans would be a big enough hill to climb, a big enough challenge to one’s sanity, without compounding the situation with dogmatic unrealism.
Isn't being trans demonstrating significant dogmatic unrealism?
Posted by: MC | July 11, 2017 at 12:27
Hey, whoa, what's all this scurrilous slander about bollocks and the Queen's tongue?
Posted by: Turk Turkleton | July 11, 2017 at 12:57
...a right hook of ignorance...
Indeed.
Redheads are <2% of the total population, or somewhere past 2σ, so yes, anything but black, blond, or brown is by definition an outlier. It is hard to take someone seriously when he can't get the fundamentals right. Regardless, this lays the whole fallacy out:
Right - there are allegedly an infinite number of genders, women can have johnsons (or the obverse), but the ultimate goal is to become one of the two real sexes, just not the factory equipped one. It remains a mystery to me how these people can walk around thinking all these contradictions make sense.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 11, 2017 at 13:02
It remains a mystery to me how these people can walk around thinking all these contradictions make sense.
Only sanity requires consistency.
Posted by: jabrwok | July 11, 2017 at 14:34
"Riley J. Dennis" should have just bowed to reality; he'll never make a convincing female.
Also, I identify as a 6-foot, hundred-pound, 22-year-old supermodel.
Posted by: Pogonip | July 11, 2017 at 15:19
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/opinion/how-we-are-ruining-america.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fdavid-brooks&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
Posted by: Wordness to the turdness | July 11, 2017 at 16:54
This scribbling decrying Christofacists and home-schooling is bad enough I would suspect parody ... then we get to about the author
Accompanying picture about what you'd expect. o_OPosted by: Darleen | July 11, 2017 at 21:07
I need to remember to cast my Hugo votes. Laurie Penny is up for one.
Posted by: Surreptitious Evil | July 11, 2017 at 22:20
Here’s what the folks at Merriam-Webster have to say
I’m sensing tension in the room. It could kick off at any moment.
[ Reaches under bar, fingers revolver. ]
Way too subtle. Need shotgun.
Posted by: Randy | July 12, 2017 at 01:31
So one of the finalists for Ru-Paul's Drag Race is a fellow transitioning to be a woman...so why can't a biological woman enter the Drag Race?
Posted by: QuintAmpersandJessel | July 12, 2017 at 02:44
Wordness to the turdness
What's Miss Brooksie, the NYT's token "conservative", sniveling about now?
Posted by: Spiny Norman | July 12, 2017 at 03:36
What's Miss Brooksie, the NYT's token "conservative", sniveling about now?
Our Miss Brooks pity-lunched with a 'friend' who only had a high school diploma and was frightened by the sandwich menu in a gourmet shoppe...
How white of him.
Posted by: Darleen | July 12, 2017 at 05:02
As mockable as the sandwich shop incident is, I actually think Brooks has a point. Upper class cultural signifiers are used as a barrier, and perhaps one that offers plausible deniability to the those policing it.
Posted by: Wordness to the turdness | July 12, 2017 at 05:57
As mockable as the sandwich shop incident is, I actually think Brooks has a point.
Rod Dreher has some thoughts on that here.
Posted by: David | July 12, 2017 at 07:47
...I actually think Brooks has a point.
Brooks lives in DC, so perhaps to that lot of self-isolated nitwits it has been culturally appropriated and turned into "gourmet" sandwiches because for them it is exotic, but go to Bensonhurst in Brooklyn and you'll trip over pork stores and delis selling the stuff. If you grew up anywhere in any east coast city except near Central Park, it is basic working class food - it goes in subs (grinders, hoagies, or pick your favorite regional name), pizzas, or if you are in New Orleans, muffulettas.
For that matter, here in South Flyoverlandia, where Brooks* would never deign tread, in a town with the same population as about four square blocks of Manhattan, I can get the fixings at the local grocery, and I also know that in the DC area one can get then at local groceries, so unless this "friend" just dropped in from a fishing village in the Northwest Territories, his story is utter bollocks.
If the "friend" is real, I would bet real money the reason she bolted is that she didn't want to be in a place filled with as many pretentious snots as Brooks, even though the only other people who "only" had high school diplomas were the guys making the damn sandwiches.
(* Brooks only has a Bachelor of Arts degree, which might explain his delusions of adequacy and sucking up to the cool kids in DC)
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 12, 2017 at 13:23
If the "friend" is real, I would bet real money the reason she bolted is that she didn't want to be in a place filled with as many pretentious snots as Brooks
Yep, especially the real part. Odd to me that this has kicked up as much dust as it has but then again, no surprise. It's the class thing that their consciousness centers around. What he seems to want to "woke" his readers about is how such people of such high airs needs to be awares that people with only a high school degree (and who says "high school degree"?) are not worldly like himself and his readers. Though I don't believe he states this explicitly, what I think he's trying to get across is the idea that all or most such people are that way and that care should be taken to avoid putting such people in such situations. Based solely on their class/station in life.
Personally, I have never been to a formal black tie dinner. Were I to be invited and attend one, I'm sure I would be uncomfortable. Especially at first. What would be far more insulting to me, would not be the supposed concern of "upper class cultural signifiers" that I was visibly uncomfortable, but that such discomfort was beyond my simpleton capacity to adapt and learn from. That would be the true insult. And that is what I perceive in our Miss Brooks' little dissertation. Which again smells to me like something that only happened in xer head.
Posted by: WTP | July 12, 2017 at 13:38
What he seems to want to "woke" his readers about is how such people of such high airs needs to be awares that people with only a high school degree (and who says "high school degree"?) are not worldly like himself and his readers.
Exactly, that and how the benighted need to be guided and minded by their self-perceived betters.
...what I think he's trying to get across is the idea that all or most such people are that way and that care should be taken to avoid putting such people in such situations.
You give him too much credit, this is the guy who thought Obama was the greatest thing since canned beer because of the crease in his pants, he is just a snob, but with no particular reason to be one, other than the desire to be perceived as an "elite".
Meanwhile, here in South Flyoverlandia...
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 12, 2017 at 13:59
with ingredients like Velveeta and Miracle Whip. While she was frozen in mesmerized horror, I stole $80 from her purse.
Heh.
Wait. I don’t know what Velveeta is. Should I feel class anxiety?
Posted by: David | July 12, 2017 at 14:03
I don’t know what Velveeta is
It's kinda like Cheez Whiz. That help ya any?
Posted by: WTP | July 12, 2017 at 14:16
It’s kinda like Cheez Whiz.
You’re making no sense.
Posted by: David | July 12, 2017 at 14:18
Should I feel class anxiety?
One will always feel class anxiety, tovarich, until the proletariat realize their true place under their Glorious Leaders.
Velveeta, though, may not have made it across the pond outside of a PX/BX/NEX, so you get a pass for this one. It is a cheese like product that has as its most redeeming feature the fact that as it melts it doesn't turn into lumps and oils, so it is a good base for sauces for things like mac and cheese, and cheese dips. It is also cheap and comes in 2lb blocks, so even college students working on gender studies degrees can afford it.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 12, 2017 at 14:24
You’re making no sense.
Velveeta brick, has to be melted:
Cheez Whiz, basically spreadable Velveeta, but with extra flavor from mustard and Worcestershire sauce built in:
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 12, 2017 at 14:31
Now you’re just screaming.
Posted by: David | July 12, 2017 at 14:32
Now you’re just screaming.
Think of it as the American equivalent of Marmite...
Meanwhile, back to Our Miss Brooks, it seems our new friend Miss Anderson finds herself in a similar pickle with her father:
We'll skip over the part about "crafting arguments" when GIGO is in play, but, by golly, she has three degrees and is a writer, so how dare a guy with maybe only one think differently and reject her silliness. Poor old sod probably thinks there are only two sexes.
I don’t know how to combat this.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 12, 2017 at 14:48
I don’t know how to combat this.
Oops, that was a Miss Anderson quote...
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 12, 2017 at 14:51
I don’t know how to combat this.
At that level, vanity is impervious.
Posted by: David | July 12, 2017 at 14:52
I don’t know how to combat this.
As standard subjective conversation/debate it is virtually impossible. However, and not sure how to do it in the specific context you describe, but I try to pull the conversation into a domain that has a discrete, objective answer. Possibly an event to occur in the near future or an objective fact, something numerical, that can be referenced from an objective, reliable source (heh...harder and harder to find those). Then propose a wager. What I find is that most such people retreat either to the whimpy "I don't gamble" BS or they start equivocating on their original statements. Writers, philosophers, preachers/priests, and other blue noses are inclined to wilt. Or they stop talking to you entirely. Either way, it's win-win.
Posted by: WTP | July 12, 2017 at 15:37
I don’t know how to combat this.
Point of clarification, that was Miss Anderson claiming she couldn't "combat" the fact that her father isn't buying her social science genuine frontier gibberish, because he is evidently not swayed by the might and majesty of her three degrees in Useless Studies and online rantings.
Posted by: Farnsworth M. Muldoon | July 12, 2017 at 17:01
Ah....missed the correction. My bad. Fortunately I have some left over Cheez Whiz with which to salve my self-inflictions. I try to keep some handy in case they choose to do an ad hoc Super Bowl or sumpin.
Posted by: WTP | July 12, 2017 at 17:42
Velveeta is a "processed cheese product." Just think of all the marvelous ways they're using plastics nowadays.
Posted by: Geezer | July 12, 2017 at 18:19
It makes a genderfluid otherkin non-objectifyingly self-esteeemed to be a soldier!
Posted by: Acksiom | July 12, 2017 at 19:41
There's no VELVEETA over there?!?!! How do you poor souls make cheese dip?
Ultra-simple cheese dip: 1 2-lb block of Velveeta, I can Ro-Tel tomatoes, 2 cans Hormel Turkey Chili. Use a crockpot liner because Velveeta turns to plastic when it cools.
Cheez Whiz makes great (if sloppy) cheeseburgers.
I KNEW professional Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong was a liar! In her "memoir," "Through The Narrow Gate," her family goes to visit her at the convent on which she has inflicted herself, and they have what sounds like Velveeta but she calls Cheez Whiz; apparently she got the two products mixed up. And now we learn you don't even have Velveeta in England!
Posted by: Pogonip | July 12, 2017 at 21:12
Well, there IS such a thing as Fox Geezer Syndrome--my mom had them on 12 hours a day until she became too senile to follow them--but "Fox Geezer Syndrome" does not equal "Miss(?) Anderson is right about everything."
How's the summer weather in merry old England? Here in the deplorable flyover US A, it's hot and humid, around 90 degrees F.
Posted by: Pogonip | July 13, 2017 at 00:47
It makes a genderfluid otherkin non-objectifyingly self-esteeemed to be a soldier!
Sing Along!
Posted by: Hal | July 13, 2017 at 02:31
Echoing from commentary from a bit back . . .
---And the original comments . . .
Posted by: Hal | July 13, 2017 at 20:07