25 July, 2021

If you're bored with the facts of life, what facts should you look at next?

□ [“Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Says We Must Create ‘Reward-Punishment’ System for Vaccines"]

They're not going to call it a mandate, they're just going to treat it like a mandate in every aspect and impose their will.  That's so much better.

Nazis were much more competent at running a country, no wonder communists hate them even as they behave exactly like that.  This also illustrates the mental gymnastics that everyone has to go through which makes obedience easier to enforce.  They don't need to censor people who are totally wrong, the censors are aimed at people who are right about accusing them of tyranny.

They're even planning to ban kids from school - and don't see any way the kids would prefer that - unless they have all the required documents, exactly the opposite of established laws that have long-existed foreigners trying to get in.

Horrific Video Shows Teen Mob Brutally Attack New York City Firefighter Who Was Walking His Dog
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Get Woke Go Broke: US Men Lose to France in Mens Basketball in the Olympics
July 25, 2021

Penn State Professor Tells White Student ‘You’re Breathing … So You May Have Oppressed Somebody Today’
July 25, 2021

Lib Summer Havens Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard Are COVID-19 Hotspots
July 24, 2021

□ [“Texas Democrats unravel - 'I'm just pissed off' that Biden won't meet with them"]

A least a half-dozen of those among the group sitting closely together with nobody wearing life-protecting masks have been found to have that evil virus that especially kills old people and they're unhappy that they can't infect Biden.  The tons of popular media doesn't make a difference, getting paid while skipping work doesn't matter, they want to infect an unhealthy old man with a virus that will kill him deader than disco.  That's their priority and they don't even know that.

Jackie Mason, Jewish comedian, age 93
July 24, 2021

I'm not sure how it's happened, but I've actually gone through most of the Duckman episodes by now.  I'm not watching them but just that for the first time in a couple decades, I've consistently had videos of something playing while I worked.  Why?

Anyway, at its best, the show was excellent.  Made for the USA network's "Up All Night," I've always seen it as an attempt to make genuinely adult cartoons and it worked very well there.  There are a few places where the 'mid-1990s' aspect doesn't really work, too many references for things that nobody remembers, and especially towards the end, the leftism becomes way too obvious.  That part's obviously been going on in Hollywood for a long time but usually they can find something entertaining in the process.

I've always seen this show as an alternate to the Simpsons' immense popularity, this was was the series where the new potential of cartoons was really seen, or at least expanded upon the Simpsons.  In modern animation, there was Who Framed Roger Rabbit, then the Simpsons, a year later or so there was Duckman and the rest got started after that.

There's also technology, cable was expanding big-time by then and the various new channels had to fill their hours with something.  There was only so much reruns that could be done, new recordings would need to be added.  Unscripted programing could only do so much, cartoons were an obvious choice.

This is where I can't speculate too much, I was certainly watching a lot of tv back then but even then, it was pretty limited.  Music videos, sitcoms, Simpsons, movie channels.  Older cartoons, sure, but I didn't follow most of the newer ones.  Obviously what's on tv nowadays is completely foreign to me.

Yet now I find myself watching stuff, at least stuff that came out two or three decades ago.  There are other sitcoms I'd be totally willing to watch episodes on other shows from the same era.  Ok, I have the dvd's in the next room, I could obviously see them, or just buy them on Amazon, but there you go.  That's how interested I am.

Still, Duckman does stand out as something of quality, not a common thing.

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