Monthly Archives: August 2018

Review of “Safe House”

Posted on 2018-08-25 by jimbelton

 * * * B Safe House is a spy thriller involving a bored CIA agent, Matt Westin (Ryan “Deadpool” Reynolds), in charge of a safe house in South Africa is suddenly plunged into danger when renegade agent Tobin Frost (Denzel … Continue reading →

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Men Blamed for Women Freezing Ova

Posted on 2018-08-18 by jimbelton

According to the Telegraph, Women freeze their eggs to allow men to get ahead in their careers. Presumably they mean to allow their mates to get ahead? How does a woman freezing her eggs help a man to get ahead? … Continue reading →

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Toronto Star Columnist: Canada Has No Culture

Posted on 2018-08-15 by jimbelton

I read with amazement the Toronto Star’s national columnist Emma Teitel’s opinion that Maxime Bernier’s ill-advised tweets on diversity simply don’t make sense. In her column, she states her belief that Canada’s culture consists of brand loyalties, love of hockey, … Continue reading →

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Review of “Extinction” (mild spoilers)

Posted on 2018-08-13 by jimbelton

* * * B Extinction is an alien invasion story with a twist. I can’t say a whole lot about the plot without spoiling it, so I won’t. The setting is the near future. Peter (Michael Peña) is a man … Continue reading →

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Censorship helps BitChute.com and Infowars

Posted on 2018-08-11 by jimbelton

Update: As of August 18, BitChute is 40% of the way to their funding target. BitChute.com is raising funds to grow the site. The site keeps a little tracker in the top right corner. It just hit 32%. It had … Continue reading →

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Hating Men is not the Solution to White Nationalism

Posted on 2018-08-11 by jimbelton

Salon blames men for white nationalism in After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? Feminist Sociologist Michel Kimmel is interviewed, and offers an interesting mixture of progressive claptrap and sound advice on how we … Continue reading →

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Twitter Stands Alone and Earns My Respect

Posted on 2018-08-10 by jimbelton

Twitter is being criticized for not deplatforming Alex Jones, and the enemies of free speech are up in arms. Vox claims Twitter’s stance on Infowars’ Alex Jones should be a moment of reckoning for users, and that the site [is] … Continue reading →

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Ezra Klein Fails to Learn from Sarah Jeong

Posted on 2018-08-09 by jimbelton

In Vox, Ezra Klein determines the problem with Twitter, as shown by the Sarah Jeong fracas. Does he get it right? Much of the Jeong furor has been about actually racist alt-right trolls weaponizing old tweets in bad faith to … Continue reading →

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Attacking White Liberals Helps Trump

Posted on 2018-08-08 by jimbelton

The so-called progressive left continue to attack their allies in the center. For example, last week, Slate published an interview in which feminist Robin DiAngelo explained Why White Liberals Are So Unwilling to Recognize Their Own Racism. These kinds of articles … Continue reading →

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The Gospel of Truth: Who is the Father?

Posted on 2018-08-06 by jimbelton

The Gospel of Truth is one of the best known Gnostic gospels found at Nag Hammadi. It presents a Valentinian view of Christianity, and was likely written in Greek in the second century AD. This modernized text is based on … Continue reading →

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