Novice on Film: A Joker’s Progress

Joker, 2019 and The Dark Knight, 2008 A good comic book villain is more of a representative avatar than human depiction. None evinces this better than DC Comics’ Joker. His original origin story (he falls into a vat of acid and is disfigured), provides for a madman’s revenge angle, but that familiar human motivation hasContinue reading “Novice on Film: A Joker’s Progress”

Mayor Rainbow and the Pot of Gold

On February 4th Max Blumenthal reported on the neoconservative billionaires funding Shadow Inc and its suspect voting app: This firm was staffed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign veterans and created by a Democratic dark money nonprofit backed by hedge-fund billionaires including Seth Klarman. A prolific funder of pro-settler Israel lobby organizations, Klarman has alsoContinue reading “Mayor Rainbow and the Pot of Gold”

Bloomberg Wins Iowa Caucus

Michael Bloomberg’s strategy is to wait out the early Democratic primary votes and swoop in on Super Tuesday to save the Party from Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden. The Democratic National Committee has to be afraid of Bloomberg and determined on a more dependent and malleable candidate like Pete Buttigieg. But Bloomberg’s strategy is lookingContinue reading “Bloomberg Wins Iowa Caucus”

Lizzie Warren Took an Axe…

Elizabeth Warren is waning in the polls so naturally she’s waxing woke everywhere else: When you’re so trad you bring back a tradition of court eunuchs as key advisors to the ruler https://t.co/cDT26Uyb99 — Lomez (@L0m3z) January 30, 2020 Via Steve Sailer, I see she’s talking about criminal penalties for “fake news”–having identified it asContinue reading “Lizzie Warren Took an Axe…”