For years I have called the Owl racist adjacent

Because commenters on her blog routinely throw up white supremancist, right wing shit like the following.  And she leaves it up.  The quote is so replllant it seems worse than what Hasan Piker was criticized over, and on a par with the white supremacist, hateful shit, that chud Laura Loomer recently said.

So before I even quote it, I 100% denounce it as hate speech:

"White Leftists and Islamic theocratic supremacist leftists are arrogant bigots and racists.

It is their basic nature."

I repeat bcause it is so repellant and revolting,  I 100% denounce it as hate speech.

I can go months without looking at her blog.  I can go longer without looking at her comment sections  because, she routinely leaves up, the white supremacist, hateful shit her white supremacist commenters put up.

I don't know how many people still look there.  Seems to me blogging is dead.  Long live Substack.  I guess???

Oh.  While I am bothering to be bothered. The initial post had to do with white supremacist, hateful shitbag JD Vance.  (I don't care who is making his children.  Racist plantation owners made bi-racial babies, while still being racists.)  Apparently, candidate Dr. El-Sayed made a very strong inference that  white supremacist, hateful shitbag JD Vance's grandparents might not approve of his East Indian wife, and bi-racial children.  And  white supremacist, hateful shitbag JD Vance's reply was, of all frames:  

'Keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth'

Funny, how the white man goes all in with the Black vernacular, trying to sound tough.  But more hilarious is the idiotic rhetorical trick he is attempting to play.  The quote was more about the assumed racist grandparents, than the wife.  This is the same sort of idiotic rhetorical trick the maggots used over the quote about adjudicated rapist in a civil trial, djt, and his likely wanting to tap his young pretty assistant's ass, than was about his assistant and her desires.  Who is certifiable insane.  For all we know, she might have fantasies about having her ass tapped by the fat racist with, allegely, a tiny mushroom.

I can't go any further with the image.  

Point is, using the object of the sentence as if it were the  subject.  Just to go all Karen on someone's ass  and complain.  Are any of these fuckers fluent in English?

 

The Lesson Has Wide Application.

 Definitions are important. Meanings have meaning. Delusions make people look ignorant because. Ignorance is not knowing shit. Like definitions and meanings.

White People, Who Are Not Anti-Racists, Need to Shut Up About Racism.

 Particularly the blogger I call the Owl.

Old White Lady.

Anyway.  Instead of doing her frequent shit stirring kind of post.  Where she throws up links and or quotes, but doesn't comment.  She dove in on the non-traversey about the new Asian music category for the Grammys.   Her remarks:   

Here's how I'd frame the question: Why don't the Grammys have a category called White Pop Music?

There are 2 directions to go with that question. You could say it's white supremacy or you could say it's anti-racism. It's part of white supremacy if there's an assumption that what white people do is the main thing and what other people do is subordinate — a genre or subgenre. But to have a category labeled "white" would feel — would be —  racist. 

My remarks to that.  I object to that bizarre, binary framing.  It clearly could be argued more ways than that.  Nuanced ways.  In fairness to her,  that is not her only remarks.  Let me look at that again before I say more.  Ok.  She says a little more, and quotes form her source article.  This is the more useful quote:

 "Pop music in America is an extension of whiteness and works just like it — it has no defined borders; it expands and contracts to maintain its dominion; it tells us that nothing too ethnic can have universal appeal."

Time for terminology  boys and girls.  

Hegemony refers to the dominance of one group over another, supported by legitimating norms and ideas.

Here in the USA  in the year 2026, white people still dominate the culture.  Despite how much other ethnic groups have influenced the culture.  The market is still greatly white folk.  And the businesses tend to be run by white folk.  It's not as full a hegemony as it was 125 years ago.  But white folk is still is the main market and management.

The dominant strains of the Entertainment world do not exceed the population. Entertainment is an industry.  People are trying to make bank!

I want to segue to that racist piece of shit Rep. Brandon Gill.  Who was lionized by other GOP racists for the shit he pulled at a hearing within the past couple weeks.  Trying to tee up a white supremacy culture war gotcha.  He asked some witness from the other side whether or not Mickey Mouse is racist?

I could go long.  I have that degree in Theatre and my first career was in media/entertainment.  And I know my American history.  So If it were me in the witness seat, I could have answered:  

"Well.  The original Mickey Mouse animated short, "Steamboat Willie,"  was released in the late 1920s. An extremely racist time in America.  And to be blunt.  All of American popular entertainment, back then, was tainted by racism.  And Mr. Congressman.  I could give a one hour lecture, or more,  about all that right now.  But that would go much farther than your time."

Yes.  And as a sidebar.  Current or former litigators are or at least can be demonic on the witness stand.  We know the goal is to knock the cross examiner off their stride.  You don't have to defeat them.  It's more effective to avoid arguing with them than get combative.  Just deprive them of their flow.

Anyway, entertainment follows the culture.  However.  And I did not look at the original article yet.  But I know a little something about the music biz.  There is ample history of artists "charting" in multiple categories for the same song/record/album.  And I think some have even won Grammys like that too.  Missing from the Owl's remarks if not also the article she quotes, is the idea of being a "crossover artist."

So maybe some people who don't know shit about issues of race in society should not fucking talk about that.  Likewise, if you don't know shit how the music biz works.

Lemme do a quick search.

So the internet tells me it has happened.  At least one song won in both Pop and R&B the same year.  Shit I am overthinking it.   Bad Bunny won in two categories for the same album this past round.  The top honor for "Album of the Year," and "Best Musica Urbana."  So yeah.  Despite the history of flat out racism in entertainment.  Things are much different now than 100 or more years ago.  If someone has their mind set to be a dick about it.  And doesn't know dick about the context, and or fails to do the basic research you might think Grammy categories are exclusive.  That is simple minded thinking.

As a whole.  the system is more like a potential of Venn Diagrams.  I won't get into how to get specific nominations for specific categories.  But hey.  It's possible to crossover.  You can win in a meta category and a niche.  Go for it!

I will actually thank the O.W.L. for a change

 I did a net search for, "People who are huffy and don't know it's not a good thing."  The OWL triggered that because, today she posted a link to the Oscar's nominations, with the following huffy, to my mind at least, comment:

"I don't think I've ever been less interested in the nominations. I haven't seen or been interested in seeing any of these movies. "

I am reminded of those tiresome, right wing idiots who pretend the earliest years of SNL were the only good years.  Fucking imbeciles.  Likely their dislike of the show goes back to the Reagan era.  Because they are fucking  imbeciles who hate their psychopathic, political figures being mocked.  But I digress.

But my search led to some good amusement.  I got a link for the definition of "huffy" on Urban Dictionary.  And I suppose there have been fakes for years.  I remember seeing specific people being called out, so yea.  It's not a reliable source.  But as there were at least three wildly divergent,sex  fetish themed definitions, I am thinking all were fugazys.

But I was amused.

Last note.  I am willing to guess there might actually be some actual humans who give a fuck what the OWL thinks about contemporary cinema.  Not me.  Not for that.  Not for any topic.  When she gets huffy like that, it makes me think she is something of a watered-down Karen.  Not likely to have a full meltdown in public over stupid, ridiculous shit.  But yeah. Likely often thinks like that.  And posts it on her blog with no self-awareness that . . . passive-aggressive, Karen style huffy remarks are not a good thing."

Put Down and Walk Away From the Grok, Althouse!

 Call this a distraction from the nazification of the American Federal Government, by orange hitler.  I have updated my coinage of orangenazi to orange hitler.  And proud of it, but sad because of the reasons I feel it is warranted.  But I am supposed to be avoiding that.  So come on trivial shit!  

Ann Althouse has long had a very annoying and childish habit of posting trashy and or trendy articles, and acting as if that stupid shit was really real.  For example, she got on a tangent today, based on the specifically Italian variant of an old wives' tale.  Ya know the one about catching cold?  That shit.  Asking rhetorical questions as if?  As if that is biologically or medically true?

Hey lady!  You are connected to the WWW!  A simple search query,  and reading what some reputable medical entity or MD says, can answer that.  And in my words.  Fuck no!  Fuck no!  You don't catch cold, or the Italian version of the fuck no not real wives' tale, "colpo d’aria,"  and get sick that way.  

"Colds" are caused by germs.   I learned that actually before I was 16 and took that class in Bacteriology.  But that class really hammered in the truth of it.  The kids in the class were given petri dishes.  That we planted in various places, just to see what germs would grow over a week or two.

But let me be clear.  She is free to do and repeat whatever ignorant nonsense she likes.  And I am free to call her out on it.  Ignorant!  I  believe in her right to be wrong.  And I believe in my right to mock her for it.

Speaking of earned mockery.  She still is pumping shit into Grok, and publishing the returns as if it is anything a reasonable, rational person should follow.  Like I said.   I  believe in her right to be wrong.  But seriously, lady.  Grok?  The AI owned by muskrat?  Seriously?

In the interest of full disclosure.  I went on a tear lately.  I was trying to change my google to properly function without abusing me by throwing some shitty AI response at the top of my return search list.  In short.  I ended up changing the default search engine it uses to duckduckgo.  So I am spared the mind killing shit that is what ever AI that google uses.  However, I still get suggested top returns from the duck.   They have an AI there too, but it is optional.  Less of an Orwellian horror than other  search AI.  And not really a chatbot.  So yeah.  Less of a mind killer.  

Why keep your own critical thinking skills sharp, when you can let some billionaire bozo or the weird little shits who work for them spoon feed you what they want you to believe?  I will tell you bitches why!  Because Descartes was correct.  "Cogito ergo sum!"

Here is a screenshot from some article that matches my opinion.  So it must be the correct answer.

(I know it doesn't really work that way.  I trust that the study was legit, I do say.)

Before I "Unpack" her Childish Reasoning. The Tale of the Mugato Expert.

 "Star Trek Lower Decks," is by far my favorite "TV" show.  I have, for all intents and purposes, been a Trek fan all my damn life.  And STLD is a irreverent, but loving animated comedy, in the realm of that franchise.

Moving to the point.  In one episode, a couple lower ranking officers of the ship, are running in fear from these scary alien creatures;  Mugatos.  And they encounter a self described Mugato expert who has two books on Mugatos.   But before long, they learn this "expert" only has, as in bought and read two books.  He did not research or write them.

He gets mauled, destroyed by a Mugato.  Surely, greatly, due to his not really being an expert in them, really.  But of course, that was the joke!

On to the Owl.  Who clearly was not joking.  On her blog today, she platformed some article dealing with, "The obesity crisis."  But her headline is:

"Why doesn't this article even mention RFK jr?"

Um.  Because it isn't about him?  

Because he isn't in the health related appointment yet?

And my favorite reason.  He isn't an expert on any health related issue or field.  Actually.

Let us review his credentials, and lack thereof.  He once was considered one of the most successful environmental law litigators.  And that doesn't even make him an expert on environmental science.  Never mind any other field of science.

If you would think a lawyer should know that is an objective fact?  The Owl is happy to fail to meet that minimal level of understanding about the world and the people in it.  I would say, at least a sixth grader should be that bright, to get that much!

A Rare Moment of Praise for The Owl, (but zeroed out.)

 I respect what she said about that racist movie, made by racists, called, "Am I Racist?"

They are racists because, only a racist would think it would be a good idea to make a movie making fun of racism.  To start a project to belittle anti racism, is to support actual racism, actually.  Sometimes life is that simple!  Sure, they would say they were going after some hustlers  and well meaning but wrong minded people who just happen to see racism everywhere  (it is, actually.  Said broadly without going on a tangent.)

So I criticize her for putting money in those racist's pockets!  Bad Owl.  Very bad!

"That sums up what bothered me about the movie. The filmmaker had an agenda, so I couldn't trust him to be fair to the people he was tricking. And of course, tricking them itself is unfair. The fact that he lured them by paying the fees they demanded — including $50,000 for one women — might make some people think they deserved what they got."

But her take is sort of  . . .  objective and reasoned:  But anyone could have come to tat conclusion with out watching the movie after paying money for a ticket and thereby supporting the racists who made it.

So the financial support for the project cancels out any props for her take on it.

Confession.   I am someone who was talking about the need for antiracism, more than three decades ago.  I do not appreciate the mission of attacking DEI and all of the anti racist endeavors.  Some people might think I am being unfair in calling the idea and motivation behind this movie to have been and remains,  mostly to "publish" racist propaganda.  But there is more to it than that.  They are making some money on it.  Come to think of it.  This is the major takeaway from the project.

On group of grifters set out to "expose" another alleged group of alleged grifters. 

But the targets are in it at least partly, if not greatly, for a higher purpose.  After all.  If the anti racists succeed.  Then they are going to have to find something else to do.  But the actual efforts by the people behind this project show, there still are way the fuck too many racists in America.  Accuse them of being in it for the money all ya like.  But the anti racists are not going to run out of racism to fight, any time soon.

So the movie ultimately proves the need for anti racists.  

She is a Bespoke Car Wreck. On to "The Crisis of Culture."

 I am only a couple weeks into detox from Glenn Loury and his side kick, John McWhorter's sometimes joint video chats. I call them both Black white supremacist sympathizers, enablers.  Because any Black man who buys into  the baseless, infantile, and ignorant lies about "western" cultural superiority is behaving exactly like white supremacist sympathizers, enablers would. And therefore have earned that description.  But wait.  There is more coming about idiots who don't really understand culture to come!

One of the reasons I go to the Owl's blog is, she is one of those on-paper smart people, who often says such unintentionally funny shit, I want to see  how she is embarrassing herself, nearly daily, but I do take breaks from her shit.  But usually, it is like back in the day when I used to read a daily tabloid newspaper, and had to check my favorite funnies.  But oftentimes, she is just tiresome.  Like today.  Not so much because of the article that caught her eye and posted about.  But tiresome because she went into grammar/syntax Nazi mode.  And the only thing more tiresome than a spelling Nazi  could be a grammar/syntax Nazi.  Anyway . . .

It was some review of sorts about some social commentary book, by some guy called,"The Crisis of Culture."  He's French.  That flavor of French.  The kind of tiresome Frenchman who has the time and inclination to bemoan the mash up of cultures.  

I have an earned degree in Theatre.  That is a variant of an academic program in culture, as Theatre even more that lit, is the original human storytelling tradition.  Our stories are greatly a reflection of and a record of our cultures.  So I call bullshit on the hypothesis.  All cultures we pay any attention to, have been mashed up with other cultures, going back thousands of years. That is an easily verifiable fact.   And you need not earn a degree in Theatre, World Lit, ot World History to learn that factoid! Anyone who denies that is a practiced, ignorant fool.   Now let me really digress.

I have been seeing reports that the "posh" British accent is actually a modern recent thing.  And as well, that the Elizabethan era accent should have sounded more like American English than the posh one.  Marvellous!  Just another fine example of the stupid shit people think they know, but is flat out wrong!

Anyway, I skipped the article she posted, and googled the scholar, Oliver Roy.  and found a critique.

From that:  

"The Crisis of Culture is therefore best read as an insightful and often brilliant theoretical framework that can fall apart when applied to the specific human actions it is meant to explain. To understand why old systems and cultures have become pathologized, it does not suffice to claim that they have simply disappeared, or exist only as innocuous folklorème. They are still with us, even if only in the guise of radicalism—calling for performative action."

Whatever, Trevor.  And by saying that, I am being deliberately, partially dismissive of that guy, too.  In this critique, as well as the book, the multi headed beast called appropriation, rears up.  I am not going long on that shit.  But since I approach these matters from the POV, that before America was a melting pot, Western Europe was.  And before Western Europe was. the Mid East was.  I will move on to the really important question, where the international version of culture wars are concerned.

Which faction is the most tiresome?  Cultural purists who bemoan the  mashing up of cultural shit, or the other kind, who lose their shit when ever some minor facet of "their" culture gets used by other humans?

I think both are insufferable.   Actually.   But I am a big fan of The Silk Road Ensemble, and Rhiannon Giddens is my Musical Warrior Goddess.

rhiannongiddens.com

silkroad.org

 

How Best To Succinctly Describe What Is Wrong With America's Government.

It's an anachronistic inadequacy.

I meant to go short here. But that new line of mine comes from a post I made last night, on my FB wall. Where most of my output goes. I started off with the following observation:

Our government is too bespoke for a certain time and place. The late 18th early 19th century, for the slave economy of the victorious former Brit North American colonies. And here I add. Yes. They did set up a government that in theory, was capable of reform, to avoid the kinds of repetitive civil and other domestic wars, that plagued the British Islands for centuries. And less than 80 years in, the US had a major, ugly, bloody civil war of it's own.

And back then after the war, and ever since. The nation has failed to fix the shitty government, that was designed for a specific time and place, where slave owning and anti slave states could agree to a framework for a functioning national government. Which arguably yet functions. But in lots of ways, badly. And seems to, if not makes something close to another civil war inevitable? Could lead to a dictatorship. A mean, ugly and stupid, government led by a figurehead who sees all there is as believing to them. Like a nightmarish, cartoonish version of the monarchy the colonies rebelled against. Never mind, that by the time of the Hanoverian kings, the divine rights of kings was a thing of the past, in Britain, at least.

Now I Fucking Get it! (Again!)

 I accidentally looked at the Owl's about page, for her blog.  Maybe not for the first time, but read what she says about herself:

"Please note that Althouse has an aversion to politics."

She is to politics, what an anti-vaxxer is to the sub field of immunology, which researches and develops vaccines.

In other, meaning my words, fucking useless, and you should not pay any mind at all to what they say about the topic.

I am not  not  not   making any statement on her beliefs about vaccination.  I am making an analogy, only.

I Sunk His Rachet Battleship! Glenn Loury!

 Updating because. 

There are now two vid versions of the conversation.  Newer one has a different and less flat out odious title.  And I believe is shorter.  I did now watch either one for long, because of the Black on Black crime.  Sorta.

After finding the second version/cut.  I made another comment.  This time shorter, and focusing on the Black on Black crime, sorta.

I am now surprised it took me this long to associate Black Republicans with the Black on Black crime punchline.  I believe it was the brilliant Jessica Williams, back when she was still on The Daily Show, who first used the Black on Black crime, line, as a punch line and social commentary.

Later, when she was doing Two Dope Queens, she dropped the line in one of tbe commercials for that series.  That time it was clearly for shits and grins.

I have decided that it is the perfect judgement for the vicious and insulting way Black Republicans, the very much outliers of the American Black population, judge the rest of us.  And specifically target some of us.

Fuck them judgemental Black Republicans and their Black on Black crimes against the rest of us. 

I'll stop there, but leave the rest of the original post here, here.

**********

Or at least inflicted enough of a bruise on his ego for him to delete a post I made following his vid:

The Rise of Opt-In Blacks 

Of course, this was about the white supremacist attacks on Kamala Harris.  And of course, that rachet negro went there, and seemed to defend the line of attack.  All but bought into it himself, by mentioning it, but making a point of not totally buying into it.  Yet defended it,  As a Black someone, who has experienced that odious kind of Black on Black crime?  I really wanted to call him out.  But I did not say that, particularly.

Instead, I went after him for his minstrel "act,"  which I described as a Black man so desperate to be taken as an equal of white republicans, that he was willing to try and try again, and fail.  And was accidentally funny at it.  And because of that, he should never stop trying, and failing.

And he deleted the post.  I will end there.

She Doesn't Understand Basic Sociology .

 Or prose writing either, for that matter. 

You might think that someone capable of forming an opinion (fairly jejune,) and publishing it on the interwebnetubes, would understand.  Everyone with access to the Web can publish any stupid opinion there.  Maybe not on each and every platform.  But there is some where some one can post their shit.

And I am heading right to the snark. What makes the OWL think any observation she publishes is worth any one's time?

She seems to really think like this.  

She's like the Mr. Magoo of blogging.  An old time, blind cartoon character.) Not the only one, I am sure.  But few have her credentials paired with that level of cognitive self blindness.   

Lady!  You constantly do what you criticize in others.  Pontificating!  Declaring!  Ruling on what is best to do with the baby!

Sheesh.

Oh.  Just for the record. The Sociology part?  Now it is one thing for one person to decide someone should be  out of polite society.  But you need a critical mass of members of that society to agree.  Otherwise, it's just one person's opinion.  This is about as basic as the reality of human social function  understanding gets.

 

Not Naming Names, But . . .

 

Some people just don't seem to be able to do this.  No matter what academic honors they have earned. No matter what jobs they have had.  They speak or type some thought about some shit,  and a reasonable person has to think the following about them.  (The .gif's message.)

And this overlaps with my increasing pet peeve about non experts taking about shit they know nothing, or next to nothing about.  For example.  Bill Maher has a podcast.  And recently he had other comedian Bill Burr on.  I did not watch the vid, but according to the account, Burr ripped the shit out of Maher for talking about the problems in Mid East, Gaza as if Maher knew shit. Burr was plain in saying Maher did not know shit!

I believe we need more of that in the world.  People who don't know shit being called out on the fact, they don't know shit.

What's Worse Than Dunning-Kruger? What Ever is Wrong With The Owl.

 

Dunning-Kruger is that thing when dumb people are so dumb, they don't know they are dumb.

What do you call it when someone who has accomplishment, and decades of experience in a highly technical, demanding field, like law, doesn't know their limitations?  If there is a separate word for that, I admit I do not know it.  That is me  knowing my limitations.

Anyway. Far as I know, Owl ain't go no real trial experience.  That is leading to her limitations.  As all litigators, even we former ones, know, humans tend to overrate their ability to read minds.  And here  (above) see her try, and very badly, to read someone's mind.  

Now in fairness, her first selection is not bat shit crazy.  The other two options  are pretty much cray.

At least No. One sees to be a plausible consideration for an ambitious politician, hoping to be picked to be VP nominee.  The other two are crack pipe theories.  That doesn't mean there is no chance of them being true.  Anything is possible!  Point is  Owl  just pulled it out of her . . .  near by air.  It's not thoughtful or evidence based.  It's a wild guess.  Not a sign of intelligence.  Just a dumb assed wild guess.

Some people are more willing to publish crack pipe theories out loud than I am.  And that again  seems dumb assed to me.  I will end here.

Apparently, She Doesn't Know Shit About Psychology.

 Ann Althouse, the blogger I call OWL, is at it again.  Within the past few days, I called her out for the grievous error in assuming bozo, the ex president, behaves like a rational person. I say that because he has a well documented record of behaving irrationally.  Or at least like a bratty, bully child.

Her latest failure to grasp the most easily understood psychological truth?  That other people not only can and do think differently than she does.  That there is no reason anyone should think as she does about many things.

This incident involves her posting about the 28 y.o. 

Dutch Woman Chooses Euthanasia Due To Untreatable Mental Health

The Owl's own remarks to my mind, shows a total lack of ability to emphasize.  Now in my past, I was a family court lawyer.  An I had so many clients with mental health issues, I know from having seen it myself.  Severe mental dysfunction is really a thing of suffering.  

Euthanasia is legal in Holland.  Her docs says there isn't a damn thing they can do for  her  (except maybe pump her full of the kinds of drugs that will turn her into a zombie, and keep her as a zombie for ever.)  She says her life is unbearable.  And I believe her.  Never minding for now, the type of toxic personal entitlement to believe one has the right to judge someone else's mental suffering?  It's the taking of the personal medical, and making that a matter for public comment, I am more decrying, here.  Yeah.  It's a news story now because, reasons.  But I want to say that this is why I believe personal medical choses belong to that person, only.  I don't think Owl is making any public policy argument here.  Her wrong is in thinking her opinion about this means shit.

Now for my ugly experience with someone with BPD.  She was prone to performative self harm,  Playing with razor blades on her arms in a way guaranteed not to kill her.  And her emotional turmoil was of the kind, that I totally believe she lacks a real conscience, and enjoys fucking other people over. 

She not only yet lives,  Her job is being a public defender for the mentally ill.   Isn't it ironic?

But yeah.  Way I understand it, lots of people with BPD never learn to embrace the evil.  More likely it is they just can't cope with the chaos.  I go back to my premise.  People don't all think the same.  And other people should not have to experience what I have, witnessing a full blown mental meltdown, to get that.

I had a client who's Bi Polar Disorder meltdown in open court, was so ugly and raw, some of my fellow layers came over to me and comforted me.  Cause family court lawyers know.  All we can do is encourage our more dysfunctional clients to keep with the treatments, and ask the docs to change the meds when they don't seem to work.  We were more helpless than the doctors.  And when the doctors say it's a hopeless case?  Damn.  Just damn.

The Text of that Petition about Bozo's Mental Disease and Dysfunction.

 The OWL should take note!  But she might post about it  and change words here and there!  

Why this petition matters

Started by John Gartner Ph​.​D.

We, the undersigned licensed medical and mental health professionals (INCLUDE YOUR ADVANCED DEGREE IN YOUR LAST NAME WITH NO PUNCTUATION) believe that, while a definitive diagnosis would require further testing, Donald Trump is showing unmistakable signs of dementia based on his public behavior and informant reports that show progressive deterioration in memory, thinking, ability to use language, behavior, and both gross and fine motor skills. 

1) Decline from baseline:

Overall, he shows a shocking decline in verbal fluency from his previous baseline. He was once highly articulate, with a sophisticated vocabulary, and spoke in polished paragraphs. Now, his vocabulary is impoverished, he often has difficulty finishing a thought, sentence or even a word. Typical of dementia patients he perseverates and overuses superlatives and filler words.

People who worked closely with Trump during his administration are reporting a shocking deterioration in just 4 years.

2) Memory:

Forgetting names and dates is normal for people who are aging (like Joe Biden). But the Dementia Care Society says "confusing people and generations" is a sign of advanced dementia. Recently, Trump confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi. 8 times he said he was running against Obama. He didn't look like he was joking. An example of confusing generations: Trump said his father was born in Germany, when that was his grandfather. Michael Wolff wrote Trump not infrequently failed to recognize old friends.

3) Language

Trump shows formal signs of disordered speech we typically see only in organically impaired patients. Trump is verbalizing an increasing number of  "phonemic paraphasias. Using non-words in place of real words that may include a fragment of the actual word. For example saying "mishuz" instead of missile, or "Chrishus" insead of Christmas. Sometimes he just uses sounds that don't resemble words at all. 

Trump evidences ‘semantic aphasia’ where he uses words in the wrong way. For example, "the oranges of the investigation."

Trump evidences "tangential thinking" where he drifts from one unrelated thought to another, and sometimes tries to confabulate them into a story. But the narrative is literally incoherent. With increasing frequency he degenerates into literal incoherence, where no one can tell what he was trying to say.

4) Motor:

Trump shows evidence of a "wide based gait" commonly found among patients with dementia. He swings his right leg in a semi-circle as if it were a dead weight. He also show deterioration in fine motor coordination, for example having difficulty drinking a bottle of water.

5) Behavior:

He is showing marked deterioration in impulse control and judgement.

This represents a unique danger because of Trump's pre-existing Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder. As he continues to deteriorate he will become even more erratic, impulsive, paranoid, and aggressive than he already is. 

A demented malignant narcissist as president of the United States would have unimaginably catastrophic consequences, and so we feel an ethical obligation to warn the public, and urge the media to cover this national emergency.

Signers, please leave a comment explaining your clinical rationale for signing the petition. Your voice and your words matters

 Link To Petition

Here is an article about it.

"Experts are desperate to warn the public": Hundreds sign Dr. John Gartner's Trump dementia petition

 

 

 

It's Not Really Something To Be Proud Of, OWL!

 Your I'm a contrarian, act!  But yes.  There is this mostly unaffiliated cadre who are proud about being contrarian. Which is not the same as being an iconoclast.

According to Merriam-Webster, an iconoclast is:  

 a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions.

But a contrarian is:

someone who takes an opposing position or attitude, especially one that rejects the majority opinion. 

It seems similar, but the iconoclasts tend to mean it. Contrarians are likely to be doing it for shits and grins.  It's all about intent.  Think about those assholes who say they want to do a thought experiment, and then say something shocking and trollish?  Yecch!  Fuck those guys!

Anyway.  The OWL has an annoying habit of rewriting the articles she sometimes posts on her blog. Edit  by word suggestions, more than even at the full sentence level. Which can be vexing, when she spins critics of bozo.  But at least she is doing it in public, honestly?  As opposed to the spin doctors who actively seem to be either in denial that bozo is a dangerous, mentally diseased person.  Or, are willing to play along that he isn't, for whatever base and vile reasons.

I think she might actually be somewhat sincere in her feeling sorry for bozo being called a dangerous, mentally diseased person, when called or inferred to be a dangerous, mentally diseased person.  Like in the article that OWL posted about today.

Some people might believe that in of itself is evidence of one being a dangerous mentally diseased person, themselves. I invite you to guess if I believe that?

In another light.  This whole contrarian act is pretty much an invitation to anyone who sees it, to assume the worst about the contrarian. That they might actually believe the contrarian bullshit they publish, while being contrarian.

Which is why the contrarian act is lame, and for morons. 

Express yourself clearly about what you believe, or don't.  You do you, boo.  And if you don't?  Any misunderstand is on you boo!

Why Do I Bother Even Looking at the OWL's Blog?

 Because it's a few minutes not paying attention to depressing real important shit.  In any case:

But I will give her a tiny bit of credit in that both media, and fake media, and fake people mis repeatedly use words a lot.   So at the metal level, she has a tiny point.  It's her choice here that is comical.

Historic, as in . . . .has it been done before?  So this is a first in (known) history. That is an easy thing to understand.

So this usage she focuses on, is just plain 3rd grader dumb. As in, a 3rd grader can see the flow in her observation.

Now I do have some word peeves.  I hate it when people seem to misuse decimate.  As that used to have a very specific meaning:  reduce by 10%.  Specifically, the membership of a disobedient Roman  Century, where it gets broken down to units of 10 soldiers, who have to decide which one of them has to die, at that hands of the others.

But due to more likely just not knowing  the meaning, never mind origin, people now use if for any slaughter.

I learned the lesson, decades ago, that one really has better shit to do than fight word usage.  Except when politicians do it to spread misinformation about issues. Now then. Go have at it!  Protect truth to protect then nation and the people.  Let the trivia alone.

The Fake Trad Wife to OF trend #tradcon #tradwife #datingadvice #datingr...

I am not promoting this video, as much as I am discussing one of my more minor pet peeves:

mistaking internet trends for reality.

I am not in doubt there is an internet trend towards this . . .  let me find the right word . . .  content.  I will not call it a trend myself, as there is no available data that this statistically counts as more than cosplay, click bait,  fake bullshit.

But some people.  Even some retired law professors often fall for clickbait, be it cosplay or otherwise.  And post dumbassed shit on their blogs without doing the analysis:

Did the writer of the article I mean to share, actually do the research to support the naked claim, this is a trend?

At the next level, google the issue your damn self, and try to find the data your own damn self.

If you do not find data that supports the writer's argument? You should either post with a disclaimer:

"Warning! There seems to be no evidence to support what the article says.  I post for shits and grins, only!"  Or somesuch.

Of you should not post at all. We live in the Age of Disinformation.  Responsible humans should not contribute to the disinformation!

PS. I went with cosplay instead of LARP.  but honestly.  It's the same shit, different label.

I have a BA in Theatre, and my first career was in sho biz.  And after that, became a lawyer.  So I have a finely tuned sense for bullshit.  But I don't think people need the degrees I  have, to be able to ask themselves:

Is this shit I am seeing on line, real or fake?  Even better.  Should I ever assume some shit I am seeing on line, is real?   The answer to the second question is fuck no!  Never assume shit you  see on line, is real.  Wait for the proof, or go look it up yourself. If you are seeing shit on line? You are already likely on line.  Google that shit!

The OWL Strikes Again. Cray Cray Time!

 

Ok.  In the past the OWL has published observations that were so off, unhinged, that I have to (as a learned layman) doubt her cognitive abilities.   Consider this nugget:

The James Austin Johnson impersonation of Donald Trump is so good they must be worried it will...

... transcend the defenses of the "SNL" audience and cause them to bond with the man they think they need to hate.

She is talking about the guy who currently does 45 on SNL.  My  notes on him to follow. But I mean to say that even her loyal MAGA fanbois are not buying that bullshit.  She might be wise in the ways of visual art.  But when it comes to acting, she has all the depth of a single sheet of onion skin paper. She knows what she likes, and labors under the delusion she is representative of widely held tastes.   And in a world polluted with reality TV, and niche podcasts?  She doesn't get it that she is a market demographic of one.  Anyway.

I watched the cold open live. And despite the fact the actor is technically good at it.  It's lacking.  It's not even so technically good that you at least get satisfaction from the superiority of technique, like with  Eastern European ballerinas.  (Ballet is my jam.)  But there might be a similarity in the lack of heart.  it's a cold portrayal.  And the fact bozo (as I call him) is so gonzo to start?  Downplaying him just leaves me wanting to look at something else.

I loved Alec Baldwin's take.  He at least got it.  You got to do bozo big.  He already is a cartoon character.  Make him a bigger clown!  And ya.  Alec is back in the dock again.  Good luck with a motion to dismiss.   I don't really know him, but for a while there, a few years ago, we were running into each other so much (usually a ballet gala performance,) he was recognizing me.  Anyway.  

On my way out the door.  My VP Bingo card.   Anna-Paulina Luna. Now follow me.  If he picks a woman, she will have to be hot enough he would want to fuck her.  And it would be in keeping with the idea of bringing in more Blacks and Latinos to pick a Latina.  It's a twofer!  And I checked.  The bench is mighty thin for Black Republican women who already have been elected to any notable office.

I am not swearing, guessing this will be the choice.  I am playing VP Bingo here.  And this is the Bingo card I choose.

Oh.  Re Elise? Her double chin has to be a disqualifier for bozo's milf standards.  Just a guess.  But hey.  It's just a guess.  I could be totally wrong either way.  Lust or political choice.