Apr 17

DA CZ

I agree, Charlize Theron was very good indeed in The Devil’s Advocate.

Left to her own devices in big, scary Manhattan, a neglected Theron begins to succumb to demonic visions. As her character spirals into madness and desperation, the actress conjures a tempest of raw emotion completely out of sync with the otherwise tongue-in-cheek nature of the proceedings

She redeemed the movie for me and made me watch parts of it twice (uh, specifically, the parts with her in it). I’d already seen her in 2 Days in the Valley, but at the time — because I was younger and shallower — I wrote her off as too pretty to be serious. (Yeah, that’s the kind of stupid shit I thought then).

Anyway, she was almost unrecognizable between the two films. 2 Days in the Valley:

Devil’s Advocate:

Apr 16

How Long

How long before the liberals define any sex as “trafficking?” Doesn’t seem that far off, really.

Apr 16

Banned Aid

I remember about 25 years ago when “experts” confidently predicted we’d never have the solar and wind generation capacity that we had…a decade ago (It’s way more now).

Got banned from forums for disagreeing with those mooks.

Apr 16

The Real Risk

The real risk (for most). Preventable tragedy, and we’ve had so many of these this past year.

Apr 16

Havoc

But DOOM! Variants! More doom! Stay inside forever and ever!

The truth is the pandemic would’ve ended even without vaccines — we just sped it up by a year or two. Luckily.

I’m so done with the doomers.

Apr 16

Optim

Ignore the pessimism: Covid vaccines are quietly prevailing. Nightmare scenarios involving deadly new variants are making us all too gloomy – but there’s a scientific case for optimism.

The press gets clicks and makes money from doom-mongering, and liberals are more than happy to sing the same tune. It’s sad to see but this constant focus on doom has little to do with reality.

It can be quite easy, reading the press, to believe that the pandemic will never end. Even when good news about vaccines started to arrive in the autumn, this grim narrative managed to harden. In the past month, you could read “five reasons that herd immunity is probably impossible”, even with mass vaccination; breathless reports about yet-uncharacterised but potentially ruinous variants, such as the “double mutant” variant in India, or two concerning variants potentially swapping mutations and teaming up in a “nightmare scenario” in California; get ready, some analysts said, for the “permanent pandemic”.

The contention that “herd immunity is probably impossible, even with vaccines” was conventional expert wisdom a few months ago, though it was obviously wrong and delusional. So it doesn’t get forgotten I’ve taken a few screenshots of that and other clearly unsound prognostications so I can rub it in their faces later on — because of course it’ll be memory-holed and then become a “conspiracy theory,” as is the way of things now.