A Thought About Jussie Smollett

Here.

Hate-knitting

Here. At this point, no one should be surprised at accusations of knitting as a hate crime. The accusations are always only about power.

Social Media Quotes

Some arresting and unflattering quotes about social media.

Rota Harp

Saraband and Toccata for Harp by Nino Rota.

And a bit of fun from Per Norgard (and a certain Mr Bach), Bach to the Future.

I must reread Hofstadter

Eugene Volokh highlights another example of woke anti-intellectualism.

Book.

Smollett

Jussie Smollett has not only refused to let the cops see his phone, he has even refused to give them his phone records. He gave them a “redacted” listing. Details. It's not easy to find an innocent explanation of this.

Eastory: Operation Barbarossa Animated

10 minutes. There are follow ups for subsequent years.

Double Edged

Razor blades that is.

King Gillette invented the double edged blade and the safety razor, and Gillette still makes superb blades, but there are a lot of other choices.  One site I have used is ItalianBarber.com, and they seem to have good prices. They carry their own line of shaving soaps and gear, RazoRock, which I have been quite pleased with it. Another site is Maggard Razors.

I don’t actually like the German Croma blades we saw in the video very much. Russian made blades are generally superb. Rapira and most Gillette blades are Russian.

It's wise to start with a blade sampler, as different people like different blades. EBay is usually the best spot for blades.

Some recommendations:

• Edwin Jagger DE89 razor
• Polsilver Super Irridium or Astra Superior Platinum blades
• Razorock Plissoft brush
• Razorock Mudderfocker or Razorock Zi Peppino or TOBS Avocado soap

The $8 Razorock razor is pretty good for a starter if you are pinching pennies. The Fine Accoutrements lathering bowl works incredibly well. 

On the plus side

No CNN host has expressed a desire to punch any multiply accused rapist Democrat politician in Virginia. Or suggested that Democrats in blackface and/or Klan hoods look punchable.

Baby steps, baby steps.

AirBnB sanctioned

Good for Florida. I posted about this last year.

A. J. Casson

A Canadian painter who belonged to the Group of Seven, and who lived in my hometown for some years.

Shamelessly stolen graphic

Gimme that old atonal music!

Here.

The Lawsuits Begin

Against the Punch-a-Kid crowd. Here. I hope there are more to come. Not all Punching advocates are on the list of course, only ones who made false factual claims.

Nyman Burning

This is from the score to The Claim, a disappointing movie aside from the score. Here Nyman does something quite remarkable in the way he extends the climax on and on, doing something I cannot describe with a section using piccolos. Remarkable music.

Delicious, but

There has been some delicious hypocrisy about Northam. I am enjoying it. But stupid is stupid, and demanding he resign over old pictures is stupid.  Eugene Volokh gets it right. So does Ann Althouse.  Once more we are seeing Hofstadter's “100% mind” on display in the media and political class.

Talking to Klansmen

... while black. Here.