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Bookworm Beat 6/13/20 — all the interesting things out there

June 13, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

This Bookworm Beat is a mish-mash of all the interesting things I’ve seen today whole browsing the “interwebs.” Leftists libraries and the new Orwellian world. The Royal Holloway library, part of the University of London, has proudly announced that it will begin censoring its collection. Where Western libraries once sought [Read More]

Black Lives Matter is just another part of the left’s BIG LIE UPDATED

June 11, 2020 Bookworm 1

What we’re seeing with the Black Lives Matter movement is the BIG LIE — and it’s not the slander that cops are killers. This BIG LIE is even worse. Right now, a whole lot of us are being bullied to parrot the slogan that “Black Lives Matter.” Before I get [Read More]

Defund The Police? Sure, Why Not?

June 9, 2020 JoshuaPundit Comments Off

The latest demand by the folks at Black Lives Matter and their ‘allies’ is to defund the police departments in the cities they and the Antifa pals have rioted in. The carnage in these cities is supposed to be a message and a warning, I suppose. And why not? Apparently [Read More]

Defunding police will leave a bigger void than leftists realize

June 8, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

Leftism is a rules-based system, not a morals-based system. Societies with only morals can manage without police; societies with only rules cannot. Growing up in San Francisco, I navigated through the geography of my community by the compass. The Pacific was to the west, the Bay was to the east, [Read More]

Candace Owens ” George Floyd Is No Martyr

June 5, 2020 JoshuaPundit Comments Off

Candace Owens belongs to a group of African Americans who see beyond the BS and understand what the real problems black Americans face are…and it isn’t ‘white racism.’ She’s totally correct that George Floyd is no martyr. He’s a thug who is simply convenient to the Democrats, BLM and Antifa [Read More]

Enough with the corporate virtue signaling filling my inbox!

June 5, 2020 Bookworm 1

I’m fighting back against corporate emails expressing solidarity with Black Lives Matter, by sending replies telling them I don’t care what they think. I got another email today from a company with which I do business telling me that it’s against racism and believes in social justice. I finally snapped [Read More]

There’s Some Riots Going On..And It Was Planned

June 4, 2020 JoshuaPundit 1

There’s a number of riots going on in America right now. And there’s no doubt they were planned.The excuse for them is the death of one George Floyd, a black man who was arrested by police in Minneapolis and died while in their control. There’s a video (isn’t there always?) [Read More]

A random thought about George Floyd

June 3, 2020 Bookworm 2

Two stories, with two little pieces of information in them, lead me to a question having more to do with Floyd’s life than his death. I don’t have much to say about George Floyd and the infamous arrest because I don’t know the facts; I just know the hype. The [Read More]

Corporate virtue-signaling about institutional racism hides the real problem in black America

June 2, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

America doesn’t have institutional racism. It has a black community that undercuts itself and enablers who allow blacks to blame others for their failings. I know this sounds petty given the outrages on American streets, but one of the things that irritates me most is the corporate virtue signaling that’s [Read More]

The narcissistic entitlement of America’s criminal class

May 31, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

Footage from the riots shows a narcissistically entitled, hard-left criminal class that, quite self-righteously, has no consciousness of its own wrongdoing. Malignant narcissists are their own gods. In their own eyes, being god-like, they can do no wrong. To the extent bad things result from their conduct, the fault is [Read More]

Minneapolis riots — Another leftist city reaps what it sowed

May 28, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

The riots in Minneapolis were inevitable for Leftist policies against racism and income inequality lead to racism, income inequality, and police brutality. Tom Wolfe famously said, “The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.” Aside from being as true now [Read More]

New York Times Publishes Names of People Who Died of COVID-19 on Entire Front Page

May 26, 2020 Proof Positive Comments Off

Saved themselves the embarrassment of filling the front page with stories they’d have to retract in a day or two, I guess! At the risk of being accused of “whataboutism”, I don’t recall the NYT filling the front page of their Sunday paper with the names of H1N1 victims? But it reminded [Read More]

Every black progressive should watch PBS’s Clarence Thomas bio

May 23, 2020 Bookworm 1

Dear @cthagod, now that you’ve interviewed Joe Biden, I suggest that you learn about Clarence Thomas to clarify your thinking about blacks and Democrats. In the past two days, two things collided in my brain. The first was the interview that Charlamagne tha God did with Joe Biden, from which [Read More]

Bubble-Wrapped Americans: How the U.S. Became Obsessed with Physical and Emotional Safety

May 20, 2020 JoshuaPundit Comments Off

Just how did the U.S. Become Obsessed with Physical and Emotional Safety? [Read More]

America is killing itself with a political and cultural cytokine storm

May 15, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

An immune system overreaction (a cytokine storm) can be more deadly than the disease. America’s political immune system is overreacting, and it’s killing us. An older friend of mine lives in Oregon, which has had 137 deaths from the Wuhan virus. In a population of 4,217,737, that means that 0.0032% [Read More]

Bookworm Beat 5/14/20: Pent up posting about the current scene

May 14, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

I am exploding with pent-up posts going back two weeks, so I thought a Bookworm Beat might be the best way to do a mental download onto the blog. A good Obamagate overview. During their Russagate heyday, the leftist media had it easy because they could roll with a single [Read More]

Bookworm Beat 4/13/20 — the “this is the place to come for coronavirus memes” illustrated edition

April 13, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

If you’re looking for coronavirus memes, my friend, you’ve come to the right place, and I’ll throw some bonus Biden memes, silly stuff, and random wisdom. He’s 94; she’s 91: If you liked this post, you can find more illustrated editions here.

African-Americans and the Second Amendment

April 8, 2020 The Watcher Emeritus Comments Off

Scott Kerwin, writing at Quora, takes on the belief common on the Left that the African-American community supports gun control because they suffer from a disproportionate level of violence. But Kerwin points out that this same community also suffers a disproportionate level of state-sanctioned violence – racist actions by the [Read More]

Guilty of Being White

April 2, 2020 The Watcher Emeritus Comments Off

Olzhas Yessenbayev isn’t white but gives an interesting defense for those who are when addressing the question, “What sucks about being white?” at Quora, a Google company. Olzhas writes: Quick disclaimer here: I am not White. I am not European. I am Asian, and I come from such a part [Read More]

Hate Israel? Read this

March 30, 2020 JoshuaPundit Comments Off

Think that Israel is strictly a parasite on the American taxpayer? Think we shouldn’t help Israel or be its ally? Hate Israel? Read this. Lots of people, mostly Democrats have no love lost for Israel and attack it every chance they get. They spout the fable that Israel does nothing [Read More]