I really can’t overstate just how much I dislike ABBA. Truly, their music actually physically hurts – the impact of an ABBA tune can be weighed and measured using a crap detector. That’s similar to a lie detector, but instead of a lie, it records my disdain. The opening lines …
Read More »‘Enough’: Australian newspaper The Age comes out against extended lockdown in fiery editorial
On Wednesday, the paper published an editorial headlined “Victoria can’t go on like this.” The piece condemned Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews and the Labor State Government over its extension of harsh lockdown measures and a lack of evidence to back them up. The restrictions were maintained despite officials conceding it …
Read More »Is TV too woke? Of course it is, but the problem is industry insiders insist it isn’t woke enough
Is TV too woke? As someone who works with a lot of producers, writers, and directors who all privately tell me that if their TV project isn’t woke in conception and rigidly diverse in execution, then it won’t ever move forward, the answer is eye-rollingly obvious. Unsurprisingly, the epidemic of …
Read More »‘Not enough time to fly everyone out’ of Kabul by August 31, Maas says as 100 Germans & their families remain in Afghanistan
“We will not be able to get everyone out of Afghanistan in the remaining days of this military evacuation operation,” Maas told Germany’s Bild TV broadcaster, adding that “honesty” demands he admit this fact. The foreign minister said that German officials are “in contact” with 100 “citizens and their families” …
Read More »Many Ls have had enough of the Ts in the alpabet soup LGBTQ ‘community’, now it seems plenty of the Gs want to escape them too
The toxic Ts in LGBTQ have already forced some of the Ls – that’s lesbians – to jump out of that once warm and cosy bowl of alphabet soup. And now it looks like a load of the Gs – gays – have had enough of them too. Maybe the …
Read More »Never inclusive enough: Guide for use of woke pronouns by British law association met with storm of mockery
The law association, which represents and governs solicitors in the jurisdiction of England and Wales, has been actively participating in the virtual celebration of Pride Month, sharing its latest contribution on social media late on Saturday. The group showcased its supposedly inclusive guide on how to ‘properly’ use pronouns in …
Read More »‘In the Heights’ is 2021’s most diverse movie, but it’s STILL not inclusive enough to satisfy the militant woke beast
‘In the Heights’, the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical about life in the Latino neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City, was supposed to be ‘the movie of the summer’. The film marketed itself as a celebration of diversity, and shamelessly boasted about its Latino writer …
Read More »Being a ‘non-racist’ is not enough, the ‘righteous white men’ actor Tom Hanks learns, after daring to write about race issues
In a Sunday op-ed for the US media outlet NPR, TV critic Eric Deggans claims the two-time Academy Award-winning Tom Hanks was a “non-racist” actor, and it was time for him to be an “anti-racist” actor. But what’s the difference, you may wonder? “Anti-racism implies action – looking around your …
Read More »Fragile coalition may oust Netanyahu, but shared hatred is not enough to put an end to Israeli-Palestinian ‘blood and tears’
Just hours into talks about forming an anti-Netanyahu coalition to govern Israel, the fact that the two major players are already struggling to come to an agreement is just about the worst news anyone could hear. Nothing has changed in the shared loathing the seven would-be coalition partners have for …
Read More »Study spills the beans: A cup of Joe’s not enough for sleep-deprived people dealing with higher-level tasks
Relying on coffee may be a cause of serious procedural errors, researchers from the Sleep and Learning Lab at Michigan State University have found out. Their study published in the latest edition of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, investigated the effect of caffeine on sleep-deprived participants. Having affirmed that …
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