Foetus Bingo
Apparently, preggers teens get together to play foetus bingo, no less.
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Gangs of New York
A good review of the new Scorsese movie here, noting that it glorifies the Irish immigrants’ “struggles” while eliding over their incredible racism and brutality as they ethnically cleansed black people from New York for a generation or so following the Draft Riots pogrom.
they also present the riot as an outgrowth of the Irish fight against the nativists. The tone of what we see is, at first, celebratory?it’s a virtuous revolt, the Bolsheviks coming down the street?and then, as Union soldiers fire on the rioters, tragic. The actual rioters, however, burned down a Negro orphanage and strung up black men on lampposts and set them on fire (the orphanage doesn’t show up in the movie, the lynchings only in passing). It was blacks who suffered most in this tragedy. The filmmakers, hoping to memorialize the immigrant Irish as the soul of a new nation, went down the wrong path, then pulled back, only to end in confusion, halfway excusing an awful event.
Moon Asteroid Impact Confirmed
I’d always liked that theory about how Gervase and his diligent medieval monks in Canterbury saw the Moon crater Bruno being created, but it sadly it turned out to be hokum. However, now I am glad to see that planetary scientists seem to have confirmed the widely discredited 1953 observation by Leon Stuart of a massive lunar impact.
US Authorities Begin Mass Arrests Of Muslims
I note with some unsurprised distaste that last year’s slow trickle of extra-judicial arrests of Muslims has turned into a mass arrests of people from Muslim countries who are being asked to “register” at special facilities for processing. I wonder will they get them to wear little crescent armbands?
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