r/Selected Entertainment

So here is what passes for entertainment in our modern age. I reproduce the email that showed up in my inbox as you see below. Can you imagine what entertainers of the past would have thought of this kind of thing? Would they have thought that we had lost our collective minds? There is no way that normal people could possibly find this sort of thing desirable. Popular Culture used to be the Marx Brothers, Miles Davis and Marylin Monroe. Now it’s this.

A Chicago premiere by renowned playwright, actor, singer-songwriter and performance artist Taylor Mac.

Now playing at the Tony-Award winning Steppenwolf Theatre, a uproarious, subversive black comedy Hir, which placed on the top ten theater of 2015 lists of The New York Times, New York Magazine and Time Out NY

$30 tickets to shows June 29 – July 5
No code necessary

The classic dysfunctional family drama has just crashed through into a wholly original place. Meet Paige, a wife and mother liberated from an oppressive and abusive marriage; Max, her newly out transgender teen; and Isaac, Max’s PTSD-addled older brother, who discovers a brand new war zone when he comes home from Afghanistan. Hir’s crusade to shake up the patriarchy is disarmingly funny, absurd and surprising as it looks at an American family forced to build a new world out of the pieces of the old.

Steppenwolf offers easy parking, a new café/bar for a pre-or post-show snack or cocktail, and post-show discussions follow every performance.

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Want to know more about Hir?

Check out this interview with playwright Taylor Mac

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Jim Acosta is Butt-Hurt

“Journalist” Jim Acosta is deeply upset that the Trump White House is disrespectful of Fake News outlets such as CNN while taking questions from more conservative media outlets that don’t automatically have an Anti-Trump, Anti-American agenda. If you just want to report the news events of the day without pushing a leftist meme then I guess that qualifies as “hate.” For the rest of us, it means we’re getting to find out what’s actually going on in the country. The story is at InfoWars.

Meanwhile, Project Veritas has put out some new videos that show without a doubt that CNN pushing the Russian Collusion story is complete bullshit.

And CNN commentator Van Jones agrees that the whole thing is “a big nothing burger.”

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Pajama Boys Prepare for War

I have many decades of martial arts training under my belt, and I have to say that I actually felt bad for these estrogen overloaded pasty lefties who, judging by this video, have never worked out hard a day in their lives. Really, I felt bad for them. Who would want to be like them? InfoWars has the story if you can keep from snickering.

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A Few Links for 2017.06.28

Today, we have a few stories that can be found at America Thinker, a great site that should be on everyone’s must-read list.

First, we have an entertaining article on the rise of Megyn Kelly and her apparent propensity to use men to assist her in her rise to prominence in the world of TV journalism. This should come as no big surprise at this point. She has clearly been way over her head in the field and should not be considered a serious thinker by anyone at this point. Her use of her sexuality to gain her current position is the real explanation for her rise, not any extraordinary talent.

Like a Black Widow spider, infotainment sensation Megyn Kelly has advanced both her personal and career life sniffing out testosterone and then feeding off male prey.

Prior to her meteoric rise to fame, Megyn was married to an anesthesiologist named David Kendall.  Mr. Kendall said that on the day the couple married, the priest counseled Megyn on the importance of  ‘taking care of her husband.’ Megyn responded to the advice by asking, “What about him taking care of his wife?”

The ambitious celebrity enhanced her résumé, transforming from a rookie news anchor into a self-impressed show boater with the same self-regard.

Unlike the deadly arachnoid, Megyn doesn’t need to physically mate with her prey to get what she needs before the poison flows, but she openly exploits her female sexuality.

In another article author Theo Caldwell writes about how leftist political policies have invaded the corporate world through their HR departments and how these entities work against the best interests of the business and the more dedicated employees who work there.

Moreover, though your conditioned response is to consider H.R. a necessary evil – after all, someone needs to hire, fire, and ensure that the company avoids legal disputes arising from personnel issues – you sense, on some level, that life would be better if the entire bureau simply did not exist.

Developed in the 1980s to protect corporations from the sudden ubiquity of “sexual harassment” cases, Human Resources departments have persisted and metastasized such that the current generation of workers cannot imagine a world without them.  But, like so many cost-driving, self-perpetuating, control-seeking entities one finds in both the public and private sectors, scrutiny yields that not only are they not good at what they do, but what they do is not good.

Regarding hiring, it is not uncommon for HR personnel to have no training or experience as to the revenue-driving aspects of the organizations for which they work.  This is to be expected, since H.R. is, as noted, a cost-driving enterprise, the make-work nature of which provides, at best, a thin prophylactic against legal trouble.

But consider the bounded rationality of an H.R. person working for, say, a software or engineering company, tasked with laying out the qualifications and sifting through the résumés of applicants while lacking expertise in that field.  Certainly, he will receive guidance from the department head seeking a new employee, but the deficit of knowledge regarding the actual job dictates that the H.R. person does not know what to look for.

And finally in this piece by Daniel Sobieski we learn the many ways in which Obama criminal empire is collapsing. The Democrats thought that Hillary was going to be president, after all, and so they acted as though no one would follow them into office who might dig up all the dirt and actually do something about it.

Throw in Loretta Lynch and John Koskinen in the political targeting of the Tea Party and Eric Holder’s role in Operation Fast and Furious and withholding of records under executive privilege, and you have a rogues gallery of felons in the most corrupt administration. The very real possibility exists that James Comey, Susan Rice, Loretta Lynch Lois Lerner, John Koskinen, and even Hillary Clinton herself are guilty of federal crimes and belong in federal prison.

Of course, if Hillary Clinton had won, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. But Hillary lost and the Democrats made a foolish strategic error in pursuing charges of collusion and obstruction of justice based on sheer vengeance. There was no evidence of Trump collusion or obstruction  and now the tables are turned. The investigation of Loretta Lynch and other revelations could be the undoing of the Obama administration’s criminal enterprise, its trampling of our Constitution and our laws. Reopen the Hillary investigation and expand it to iuinclude the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One. Prosecute the lot of them – and lock them all up.

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Illinois Lottery Woes

DNA info reports that Mega Millions and Power Ball will no longer be available in Illinois due to the state’s continuing budget problems.

CHICAGO — Lottery players will soon be unable to buy Mega Millions or Powerball tickets in Illinois due to the state’s budget impasse, Illinois Lottery officials said Tuesday.

The multi-state lottery game organization warned earlier this month that it would pull out of Illinois if the state was unable to pass a budget by the end of the month.

The state’s lottery also said that any winners of prizes exceeding $25,000 “will experience a delay in payments for all games,” though didn’t elaborate on how long the delay may last.

On the other hand, in the City of Chicago, there really is a free lunch. Do you think these things might have some kind of relationship? Perhaps giving things away for free might create problems in a state’s budget?

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Sad CNN

The election of Karen Handel apparently made the Elite Media Monoculture types at CNN very, very sad. Breitbart has the story.

As the election results showed Republican Karen Handel soundly beating her opponent Jon Ossoff in the special election in Georgia, CNN analysts appeared disappointed by the results before anchor Anderson Cooper cut to a break.

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Jordan Peterson on the Unconscious Mind of the SJW

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R/K Selection Theory Video

R/K selection theory seeks to explain not just the survival strategies of various species of living organisms, but can also be applied to an understanding of politics. Why do some people adopt the views of the left while others the ideas of the right? This video gives us a quick overview of the theory as it applies to people and their political orientation.

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DOJ; Beware “Anonymous Sources”

RT (a Russian News Service) reports on a DOJ announcement to the effect that it is time for regular Americans to stop trusting Legacy Fake News Media when they use anonymous sources for their stories. And indeed we have so many examples of false and fabricated stories from The Elite Media Monoculture that there can be no good reason to take them at their word or trust them to report accurately and without malicious intent.

The Department of Justice has warned the American public not to take at face value anything attributed to anonymous government officials, just before another such report got Washington speculating about an investigation of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law.

“Americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous ‘officials,’ particularly when they do not identify the country – let alone the branch or agency of government – with which the alleged sources supposedly are affiliated,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in a statement Thursday evening. “Americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations. The Department of Justice has a long-established policy to neither confirm nor deny such allegations.”

And bias isn’t just shown when the Legacy Media outright lies about the right, which they do often. When news is inconvenient for the left, somehow it just disappears. Yesterday’s mass assassination attempt by the left is apparently not important enough to catch the attention of Google News.

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Karen Straughan on Men and Women

I was recently having a conversation on the r/K Selection forum on Facebook regarding the changes in society that have made the prospects for men much more difficult that was once the case. In doing a bit of research on this topic I found the following video that covers the topic quite nicely. This is an older video, but it is still as relevant as ever and the author, Karen Straughan, does a very good job covering the underlying dynamics that have changed the market forces strongly in favor of women and against men to such a degree that many men are simply dropping out. Women who complain about the dearth of “good men” would be well advised to watch this video.

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Newt on the Baseball Shooting

Newt Gingrich comments on Fox News regarding the ever-increasing violence of the left.

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The Shooter’s Identity

ABC reports that the shooter is James T. Hodgkinson of Illinois.

 

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Bernie Supporter Shoots up GOP Baseball Game

More thuggish violence from the left. Breitbart has the story of the assassination attempt by another out-of-control Bernie Sanders Democrat/Socialist/Communist America hater who can’t handle being rejected by the country. His “solution” is to find some Republicans and shoot the place up. If you are a person of the right, you need to understand that the left wants to kill you. Make sure you are aware of your surroundings, keep your eyes open and carry a weapon if you can. These people are your enemy and they mean you harm if they think they can get away with it.

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) has been shot, according to multiple reports. Follow Breitbart News for live updates on the developing situation.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS:

• A man shot at several dozen Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice Wednesday morning in Alexandria, Virginia
• Rep. Steve Scalise (R-AL) was shot in the hip but is now stable and undergoing surgery for his wound
• Because Scalise is House Majority Whip, Capitol Hill Police officers were already present and engaged the gunman for several minutes
• The suspect is now in custody — not dead, as early reports claimed
• At least four individuals total were shot by the assailant: Scalise, two police officers, and a congressional staffer
• Wounded staffer works for Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX). An early report incorrectly said that Williams himself was shot
• Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) told a reporter the shooter “was there to kill as many Republican members as possible.”

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