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How do you detach enough people from the degenerate pre-totalitarian culture soon enough? Even some alleged conservatives have bought into that culture on some level.ReplyDelete
That's Stages 1, 2 and 3. Detach, roll your own and make them successful enough to confront the totalitarian culture of the left and win.
For example, Stage 1 is don't buy lefty books. Stage 2 is buy conservative ones, Stage 3 might be write your own books, roll your own publishing company
Stage 3 might be out of reach for most, but Stages 1 and 2 aren't
"And if their grip on power continues, then the scenes of violence and terror that we see on the evening news will come to our streets and cities. "
Americans will not stand up to a totalitarian regime. Obama tapped into an American psyche that proves too many years of good living and plenty for all have made us soft and without fire. I can only hope that there are a few patriots left willing to put all on the line. America is rotted. Thanks for letting me rant Mr. Greenfield.
The first stage in our culture war is to get people to stop allowing themselves to be distracted by porn. It distracts from family, marriage, church, community, relationships, and jobs. And it is pervasive because so much of contemporary culture would be called pornography by our grandparents.ReplyDelete
No, no, no, no. Daniel-- like all "conservatives" you walk up to the entrance and refuse to enter. Yes, your prognosis is 100% correct. But to posit that the Tea Party is some sort of remedy is to lose sight of how the whole thing came to pass. "Conservatism" won't solve anything (says me, a recovering lifelong conservative). It is simply progressivism on second speed. The real issue is what will succeed the current progressive disease-- which is killing the host. The successor state won't be a conservative one. It will have to be something that speaks to the most basic of issues, inspires and looks to the future. As much as I sympathize with the tricorn hat crowd, all this Founding Fathers worship is about as inspiring as Mother Russia, the Orthodox Church and Tsars were to the White Russians during 1918.
NRx, Daniel. NRx.
I've never seen this nation as polarized as it is now--and I lived through the sixties. One way or another, there's going to be widespread rioting, violence, revolution--call it what you will--in this country within the next decade. The left has achieved too much to turn back now; either the right is going to say enough and start it themselves, or the right is going to push back against the left and the left will start it. Either way, it's going to be ugly.ReplyDelete
We have long passed the point where we can overthrow this creeping totalitarianism via peaceful means. It remains to be seen whether we can overthrow it at all.ReplyDelete
If it is war the left wants,then let them make the best of it.
A 2000 yr. morality of sacrifice has to be challenged. We are not our brothers keeper contrary to BO,the left or the right. The stages the Sultan proposes makes a good start. But as AR said a political solution will not change a culture only a moral revolution can pursued men to change.
Mandingo, how I grok your mouth music. It is inexpressibly vexing to see Republicans always playing the game as if they are still Dewey vs. Truman when in fact they are Kerensky vs. Lenin. You can never, ever get it across to these knuckleheads that there's anything going on here but the give-and-take of town-council politics. That's why they always look like deer caught in the headlights, utterly baffled. Or they complain about double standards. We wish there were double standards! Did anyone ever bother to complain about Stalin or Mao having double standards? There's only one standard: That which benefits the Totalitarians is good, that which inconveniences them is bad. Working- and middle-class white people inconvenience them. Jews (as Jews) inconvenience them, and you can just feel them champing at the bit, waiting for the Holocaust to recede just a little bit further into history, so they can really go after Israel.
When folks are being arrested by SWAT teams for selling raw milk you can understand that stage two of your plan is a declaration of war.
So what happens when you start selling books and have your door kicked in at 3am on some trumped up charges relating to racism or national security or whatever it is they can get you on?
Do you go quietly, or...
Daniel, I find your reasoning depressing, even more so because it is correct and I cannot find any flaw. The institutions of the left were infiltrated decades ago and now the infiltrators have moved into positions of power in those. Blame Vietnam for losing academia (teaching professions were exempt from the draft) and Watergate for losing the media (how many wannabe journalists back then wanted to be the next Woodward and Bernstein or just hated Nixon?). I don't see any way of getting those back. Better to just burn them down, either figuratively or literally.
My memories go back quite a bit and I've never seen politics this polarized or a media so willing to shill for one side. The reason was, back then, both political parties accepted some limits on what they would do and the media tried to pretend they were even-handed. Shrewsbury is correct in that nowadays it's less like Democrats vs. Republicans and more like the Bolsheviks vs. the Menscheviks. The reason the Bolsheviks won was that they accepted no limits on what they couldn't or wouldn't do. We are seeing the same play out today.
I am of a mind that in any conflict, it's the enemy that makes the rules. None of this "If we do what they do, we're as evil as them" nonsense. Reciprocal treatment is the only way to make the enemy accept limits of what they will do. I'll just leave it right there.
You're far too optimistic about America. Compared to Egyptians, Ukrainians, or Venezuelans, Americans are cowards. One hundred years of public education have dumbed down and transformed a nation of fearless pioneers who conquered every adversity known to man, to quivering jellyfish hiding in their basements jerking off to reruns of American Idol.
Even the bravest of our people are in the process of being thoroughly brainwashed in the military.
The appropriate historical analogy is probably the slow barbarian conquest of the Roman Empire.
I had pondered our plight (as you've eloquently elaborated) about a year ago, and questioned: How can we defeat them, without becoming "like" them.
Individualism, our greatest virtue, is our biggest [tactical] weakness.
As a top-down, Command & Control Ideology, when Progressive Elites determine a path forward, they communicate their marching orders through their chain of command: Politics/Judicial, Social/Cultural/Religious, Economic, Academia, Media.
I have developed a "mechanism" that, frankly I am seeking partners to help get off the ground, that; "collectivizes Individualism." A system that allows us to coalesce around, and advance righteous ideas - EVERY DAY, and to acquiesce from supporting entities who have established themselves as our adversary.
If interested in hearing more about it, I can be reached through facebook or aol @ email@example.com
Stage 1 has more heft than you might imagine: the MSM is actually going broke.
It's losing troops to a digital Verdun. Even the Huff and Puff is staggered.
An army marches on its belly. This is why Sherman took Atlanta. He stood astride Lee's lines of communications.
A screed rolls on its patrons. This is why the American public needs to tune out and turn off the agitprop and the somnolent propaganda.
In a great irony of our times, Jobs has provided the digital bread crumbs that can lead us out of this hell.
The Internet is destined to fade the cultural signal. This trend is still quite young. It is expanding exponentially, though.
Reading the comment section always depresses me as those who read your top-notch blog are obviously elderly, well educated, often Jewish, white males/females and very few, if any of the other age, political affiliation or 48 Facebook genders, while your multi-subject razor sharp analyses you blog about so would merit to be spread to the still malleable minded student age future leaders of America group to serve as an antidote to the University's left-wing indoctrination. However in present day America the chance of you getting harassed by the IRS is much greater than you getting a professorate at one of the top educational institutions.ReplyDelete
A house of cards can only go so high until it collapses. Newspaper are going broke, even the Times has had to lay off people. I hear NBC is near-broke, and millions of families can no longer afford college for their kids, thus sparing those kids from the nut jobs who now populate academia.. Meanwhile, trade schools are flourishing, and gun sales are way up, due to people feeling unsafe in their homes.
It takes a pretty hard kick in the head to get Americans off the couch, but more to the point, they have stopped consuming at least some of the products bred by socialism. As long as reasonable people keep starving the beast, there is hope.
Naresh, Americans aren't cowards. They're civilized. They've lived in a civilized world for several generations now in which things work without the threat of force. It would take a while for them to readjust to a more primal reality that governs in most other places. They still believe the system works.
Anonymous, the right does need to form internal alliances between all the factions
Blert, the mainstream media is hurting, unfortunately the left has figured out how to dumb down its media apparatus with sites like Buzzfeed and Upworthy. We have to adapt to a new threat.'
Mindrider, some are, some may not be, but the people who will read a 1,500 word article every day written from a conservative pov are a self-selecting group. That said, what I really do is generate ideas and talking points for other people to make use of beyond here.
Sophie, the television networks will 'die' soon.
W fight for minds with ideas, and this is how we're going to win. The problems were have right now IMO is that too many people in influential positions (politicians, lobbyists, media, activists) are employing "mind control" strategies of sorts to steer the country in one direction or another.
People are turning away from mainstream media in droves. It's not all about political views, though. I believe a large number of Americans are bored to death with news coverage and what to predictably hear when they turn on the liberal stations and conservative stations.
Like attracts like. Conservatives gravitate towards Conservative sites, and vice versa.
The level of discourse and action among the American public would increase exponentially if the media and political movements were more interesting and engaging. Not mere entertainment, but intellectual stimulation. You excel at that.
It would be an excellent idea for the MSM to expose people to a variety of positions and issues not covered by the mainstream media (which you do).
I've been watching vides and reading about Anarchism lately. I disagree with some of the views of self-proclaimed Anarchists (especially atheism), but am intrigued by the idea that people can be truly free and exist without governments but with a voluntary yet organized system that favors the implementation of ideas that are in the best interests of people.
The problem is that Anarchism relies on the innate goodness of people, and there are clearly problems with that. Serious problems. But what to do? Totalitarianism is a dreadful option, and Anarchism is an open door for a tyrant to slip through. Plant a single doubt in someone's mind about something and it can end in good or evil.
Heresy for a Conservative to see any benefit in Anarchism? I guess so LOL, but it's interesting. Right now many reject mass surveillance and groups of self-proclaimed Anarchists are responding to this with legal challenges and creation of anonymity sites and email services.
"As long as reasonable people keep starving the beast, there is hope." I agree Sophie. This is why I didn't vote in the presidential election. Starve out the political beast, make the politicians worry about low voter turnout. The less turnout the more worried each side will be about the narrow margin between failure and success.
Squeakers worry politicians as much as they worry sports fans and teams LOL.
Libertarianism, now quite popular among many conservatives, is not that far away from anarchism, in some senses of the word, but much less destructive.ReplyDelete
Having worked on the left and then with the Tea Party, I have to agree that the task of organizing is a great deal harder with individualistic patriot movements, harder because they are decent, moral individuals who work for a living instead of making a living off their politics, who reject the cheap thrills and sleazy gains of politics, and they want to dismantle government power, not add to it.
All these things -- autonomy, morality, decency, rejection of graft -- fly in the face of how politics works.
So how do you empower the grassroots of the Tea Party? They are insecure and very weary of fighting. They have decided to get into the foul water and fight for what they're losing, and the foulness of the water is both surprising and appalling to them.
Plus, they work for a living.
Most of all, they have bad friends. Many politically savvy people are claiming and exploiting their power.
What the Tea Party needs is a revival. An old-fashioned American spiritual community where they declare victory, because they have accomplished a great deal, enough that they're met with genuine fear-and-loathing when they intervene in politics. I've had the great luck to watch Trevor Loudon and the late Larry Grathwohl speak to many Tea Party groups, and every time, the thing I hear after they've left is this tremendous sense of relief that somebody is encouraging them to go on.
I think the problem for the Tea Party is basically a psychological problem: they are genuinely sickened by the double standards and offenses directed at them because they are decent people. They need to hear that more. And they need better advice about some of the nuts and bolts of politics -- making lists of supporters and not giving those lists away to untrustworthy people.
Nothing in the world of politics comes naturally to these people, yet they keep going to committee meetings and testifying and lobbying, all with this keenly respectable, bourgeois sense of embarrassment that they're overstepping or intruding.
That's what is admirable about them. But it doesn't lend itself to playing politics well, with the current rules.
Mindrider, I am 43, female, Baptist, high school education (no college), currently homeschooling my 15 year old son. Sultan Knish is my favorite blog and I read it religiously. In fact, I require my son to read some of these articles as part of his schooling. This uneducated white woman is making a difference and there are millions like me that you never hear about in the media. I even convinced a Turk in the uk to read a few of the articles here. Don't give up hope. :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for commenting. I think the overall readership is more diverse than people expect.
Also college is vastly overrated and these days mostly useless except as a prerequisite for certain jobs.
Daniel, I don't consider America to be civilized. It's decadent, not civilized. There's a big difference. Civilization creates valuable art, literature, and music, makes real advances in science, civilizes uninhabitable places and elevates barbaric peoples. Civilization built the US Highway system and put a man on the moon. Civilized people fight for freedom. They are civilized because they recognize principles and values higher than themselves. That's why they're willing to sacrifice their own lives to cross an ocean or a continent and to subdue the earth.
Modern America is decadent. Civilization does not consist in bread and circuses, or Facebook.
It didn't take much to bring out the frustration of Readers, today. Sounding like a hairy-chested hero is hard to resist, even if Daniel only suggested a peaceful, economic revolution, but I can tell those suggesting the pain is so great that we must take "action", are too young to remember Jimmy Carter, another silly left-leaning President. Those times were felt as unbearable, even though laws were not being ignored to any great extent. It was after Viet Nam, Nixon (who really ended it) and a dangerous Cold War world. His economics were as dumb as Zero's and he cut our Armed Forces, as if "turning the other cheek" would induce the tyrants to go back to helping their countries get out of the 19th Century. Inflation was a pain that everyone of us felt; we, today, have yet to feel that inevitability. That pain will come, and with it, resistance to the Socialism of the Demorats of today, we'll come from both sides of society.
Right now, there is not enough "pain" to get everyone to turn their gaze away from making a living. Don't be impatient, and don't be in jail when we need you. Those who follow Marxist pied-pipers always regret it. They need a revolution to take total power, and actually hope the Right will give them the opportunity of a violent revolution. Bloody ones won't be reversed, and a history, we don't want, will play out to our endless regret. The pendulum always takes "too long" to start back, but think about it; our enemies in the Media and the faculty lounges are seeing their influence decline. Universities are seen, more and more, as an expensive prolongation of adolescence and a financial con-job. Hollywood and sitcom TV will lose their influence too, but Joe-Sixpack hasn't figured out that he might be better off learning to read for entertainment. Not likely, but he might. Soon it will be easier to convince those politically favored that they are worse off, in what's really important, and they too must boycott those who are financing the Left. We have to show them, politely.
the ruling elite and its dominant culture is not the same thing as AmericaReplyDelete
I so wish that I could dismiss this post as hysterical overreaction, but as soon as Hugh Chavez, by fair means or foul, became president of Venezuela in 1999, I felt the wind shifting and wondered if Ronald Reagan's life's work was being undone. I no longer wonder: All around the world it is. The terrible part of it is that my children, the eldest of whom was born during Reagan's presidency and raised in a right-wing, religious home, do not understand what is at stake and do not care. Their atheistic, left-wing contemporaries do understand and care. The future does not look bright for America, or for the world.
-- Lightbringer
Good article, Daniel.
I do not agree with the comment that Americans are generally cowards.
As Tina T. pointed out, the decent among us work for a living. Given the tax system (created to support those lolling on the government payroll), working for a living means spending a lot of time and energy simply 'getting back to go', before you have time and energy left over to get involved in attempting to change our political system. The Left enjoys wasteful subsidies and bloated government salaries for their lazy corrupt political followers, a major tactical advantage for them in the current political struggle.
One idea hobbles anyone who attempts to stop the Left, that we are 'our brothers' keeper'. In the hands of the Left, this poisonously false concept becomes 'charity' at gunpoint enforced by our predatory government.
We have a specific nature as human beings and given that nature, in order to survive, that is with our lives as a standard of value, we must think.
In that context, individual rights should be inviolate. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is a damned good start. Our constitution goes further but portions of it, the Interstate Commerce clause, for example, have been perverted to allow government to grow without bound.
The Left holds as a basic premise that the individual is nothing and the all encompassing, all powerful socialist state is everything. In their hands, this deadly anti-concept becomes justification for political violence and murder a la Castro, Chavez, Mao, Stalin, etc.
We must recognize the sanctity of the individual, must passionately embrace well reasoned individualism, against the predatory activities of those who would install tyranny in this country. That includes keeping what you earn by right and not having your hard earned money grabbed at gun point.
Life without freedom is not worth living as demonstrators in Venezuela and the Ukraine show us daily as they put their lives on the line in support of that crucial value.
But Americans must recognize that freedom comes at the price of being responsible for one's own life.
That is, Americans must recognize that the phrase 'We're from the government and we're here to help you' properly translated from Left wing garbage speak really means 'We're from the government and we're here to enslave you.'
Daniel, I am a regular reader, and admirer of your stand for values and principles. You make some great points, and it is very important to realize how vulnerable democracy is. But I cannot agree that it is so one-sided: the "Left" is the problem. It would be much easier to address if it were that simple. For example, you say: "Social institutions, major corporations, the media, unions, non-profits and the educational system have been knitted together into a totalitarian entity with an agenda." But most "major corporations" are in the "Right" not the "Left." Whether the Koch Brothers or Chamber of Commerce types, they overwhelmingly support the Republican party and most conservative causes and candidates.
@ Lightbringer: "but as soon as Hugh Chavez, by fair means or foul, became president of Venezuela in 1999,..."
Kind of like George W. Bush's "election" in 2000?
@ DenisO: "It was after Viet Nam, Nixon (who really ended it)..."
Sorry, Nixon prolonged Viet Nam, despite his 1968 campaign promise of a "secret plan" to end the war.. More US casualties after his election than under LBJ.
Keliata, Please reconsider voting, sometimes it is absolutely frustrating, and most of the time your favored candidate may lose, but it's still at least one way to raise, however feebly, your own voice. Once you get started, you may find others of like mind and all your voices combined can make quite a bit of noise.
I read somewhere (I think it was a blog on First Things, not sure exactly) that when polled on policies, people supported those of Romney over Obama. Makes you wonder how the latter one, doesn't it?ReplyDelete
"But most 'major corporations' are in the 'Right' not the 'left.'" I have to disagree with this statement. I think at one time it was true, but major multi-national corporations can no longer be counted on to support the conservative right. They are too interested in expanding their operations into other countries. They kow tow to the left's diversity agenda. They no longer value the contributions of individuals (except at the highest levels). Everything is about the "team," which of course is made up of a multi-cultural, multi-gendered, group. They enforce a code of adherence to the left's doctrine by punishing employees who voice political opposition to the left. Even if it is done on their own time and in their own personal space. Corporations forbid their employees to make statements that might be considered racist, or islamophobic on social media or websites if the individual making the comments can be seen to be affiliated with them. You see, doing anything that might be considered damaging to the corporation is prohibited to the individual at work or at home once he/she/it is on the payroll.ReplyDelete
The answer lies with Pinochet's response to it in Chile. Have a coup, round up all of the socialists and communists in the public service and government bureaus and shoot them. Reset all of the government departments back to where they should be and then, when everything is running as it should, reinstate elections.ReplyDelete
Excellent blog and excellent article Daniel!
I can offer a few much-needed words of hope.
I am from New Zealand and I can give you the good news that down here, it is the *left* that is under siege. (The same goes for Australia.)
Ok it *is* true that (like the rest of the West), the lefties still control education and the MSM but (also as in other countries) the MSM is being greatly weakened here. The National govt here have also introduced charter schools here and the leftist education - sorry, *indoctrination* sector are trying to fight them tooth-and-nail (as such schools will greatly undermine their ability to brainwash the young).
The most popular blogs in New Zealand and Australia are both right-wing ones -
Another good right-wing blog here -
NZ and Australia are remarkably different to the rest of the West, and (IMO) one reason for that is our damn-the-torpedoes take-no-prisoners attitude to public debate.
Most of the public here CAN see through the leftist BS *and* we on the right here are very good at destroying leftist arguments using logic and reason (along with a nice dose of invective now and again... :) )
I won't dress things up though - the US, UK and Europe are now *completely dominated* by the left. That's why I see us folks "downunder" as being so important - it is we who are now the *fortress* that defends Western culture and values.
Bye for now -
Young people will wake up when they find their money and future is being redistributed to illegals.ReplyDelete
Mr. Greenfield:
Seldom does one hear such a reasoned anlysis or such a concise dissectiom of the tactics of the Left. A police state will result if those who oppose these extremists refused to ackknowledge the culture war and demand to focus on economic issues and occupy a "moral high ground" while the Marxists use this high ground to push a war on women, etc, campaign to slander and crucify those who oppose their radical utopian schemes.
I wish you had a weekly radio boardcast, better yet run for office.
The Progressive Party has been in charge since their founder was sworn in as President in September 1901. Liberty has been losing ever since. Sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly as in the last 5 years. But losing nonetheless. I believe the Tea Party must wrest control of the Republican Party and destroy the vestiges of Progressivism from its ranks. Until the people have a real alternative they can see and understand, the long down hill slide will continue unabated. Somehow, someway, in the face of an overpowering culture, all of us must regain the vision of America's greatness and work to restore it. Daniel is right. It can't be done just winning a few elections. It must be done through strong cultural influences on all our institutions. The Progs knew this and they knew it would be a long, hard slog that would take many decades. They have pressured from the outside and worked from the inside for a very long time, winning one small victory at a time to take us to this point. Lovers of liberty and freedom will have to do the same to retake the field.ReplyDelete
I think the fact that the ratings of the lefty MSM news organizations like CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, etc., are plummeting is a sign that people are doing just what you say - they are not supporting the leftist dialogue or ideology. People see and hear the lies and tune out. Don't think that "they" don't realize it. People aren't buying their BS. Also, everyone I know HATES Obama and his big lie about the democrats' Obamacare. They will try to trivialize its effect, but it is hurting Americans every day.ReplyDelete


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Last week the Obama administration tightened its oil-related sanctions against Iran. This was followed by new congressional legislation that promises to extend those sanctions further. Yet less than a year ago, most observers found such stringent sanctions against the Iranian oil sector unthinkable.
What has happened to so fundamentally change the picture? It's worth looking at three things.
A Change in Politics
There is no question that the Obama administration was initially less enthusiastic about oil sanctions than Congress was. But political power moved in ways that gave Congress more control. Ultimately, the administration struck a bargain rather than try to defeat sanctions legislation. It got language that allowed it to exercise extensive discretion in applying the sanctions: it could hold off if the economy would be put at substantial risk; it could also exempt other countries that were making solid efforts to wean themselves off Iranian crude. The decision to cooperate with Congress was critical – it opened the door for other factors to push the United States further down the sanctions road.
A Change in Philosophy
For years the basic debate over oil market sanctions was simple. One side said that the Iranian threat was so great that any tool that could put pressure on Tehran should be used. The other side said that the price was too high: blocking crude shipments from Iran would tighten world oil markets, raising prices for gasoline and diesel, and threatening to bring the economy down. Both arguments gained strength over time: the Iranian nuclear threat advanced, increasing the urgency of raising pressure; meanwhile, a weak economy made policymakers allergic to anything that might threaten recovery. In any case, many agreed, sanctions could easily be undermined, since China would continue to buy Iranian crude.
In late 2011 another strain of thinking rose in prominence. The logic was straightforward. Most countries would shun Iranian crude. A few, though, would continue to buy it. Since Iran would now be desperate for customers, though, it would be forced to offer the crude at a discount. Iranian revenues would fall but world oil supplies wouldn't; as a result, world oil prices would remain stable. Chinese purchases of Iranian crude had become a selling point rather than a flaw.
This theory hasn't quite played out in practice. China has been able to extract discounts, but Iranian exports have also been slashed in half. Regardless, the change in philosophy was essential to getting the sanctions rolling in the first place.
A Change in Markets
Over the long run oil markets tend to do a good job of balancing supply and demand. Over the short run they're considerably quirkier. A central question when people debated Iran oil sanctions a year ago was whether Saudi Arabia could quickly make up for lost Iranian crude. If they did, markets would remain well supplied, without prices needing to rise; if they didn't, all hell could break loose. Indeed even a strong response from Saudi Arabia was not without potential problems, since a surge in output would have left Riyadh without much spare capacity left in case of other problems.
But two big market trends came to the rescue. The first was a surprisingly weak global economy, which left oil demand below the levels that many had expected. The second was the surge in U.S. oil production, which has risen by nearly a million barrels a day over the last year. Over the long run, that much extra production has limited consequences for world oil markets and prices, which adjust considerably to compensate. Over the short run, though, it's critical. Surprise gains in U.S. output have largely offset surprise falls in Iranian exports. The result for markets has been nearly neutral, something that crude oil prices reflect.
Each of these three factors hold lessons as the sanctions proceed. Politics will continue to shape U.S. decision-making. Expectations that China can absorb Iranian oil at a discount seem to be on the wain. Sustained gains in U.S. oil supplies no longer come as a surprise to markets – and continued weakness in the global economy isn't much of a shock either. All of these factors may make ever-tighter sanctions an increasingly challenging task.
And it's important to keep the big picture in mind. Sanctions alone will not solve the Iranian nuclear problem. They need to be combined with effective diplomacy to have a real chance of success. Pulling that off is a far taller task than imposing the sanctions in the first place.
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Of course he does.
We all agree that he totally wants to be a super famous star, right? I mean, I like the guy, but you can't overlook his, um, eagerness. It's what you like or don't like about him—the Try is either annoying or adorable, like a puppy humping your leg for attention, depending on your tolerance. But taking on The Crow? That's next-level Want. Transcendent Try. Extra-curricular eager. That's a move that says, I'm not content with just fame. I want Fame.
A remake of The Crow is increasingly inevitable, and as much as I'm opposed to it based on both my love for the 1994 original starring Brandon Lee and the creepy curse-vibes the franchise emanates, too many people want to tackle it for it to sit on a shelf forever. And the last couple years has seen real, concerted effort from Relativity to get a remake together, cycling through potential Dravens like Mark Wahlberg, Bradley Cooper and maybe or maybe not James McAvoy, and now, according to The Wrap, they've entered into talks with Hiddleston. At least Hiddleston, legit talented and possessing solid range, is a better choice than Wahlberg and BCoop.
And the nerd community is excited by the prospect. I was a little surprised, actually, given that The Crow has like, near-religious status in certain circles, but the worst thing I heard about the prospect of Hiddleston donning the white makeup was that, if they're going to insist on remaking it, he's actually a good choice. A lot of people, including the most hardcore Crow worshipers I know, were pretty stoked on the idea, even, declaring him "perfect" for the part.
Which means that for all his eager-beaver ways and the sometimes off-putting levels of Try Hiddleston can reach, that if The Crow Redux is any kind of good at all, his try-hard ways will be rewarded with exactly the level of success he's after. I'm not sure why he's in such a hurry to begin with—if anyone can afford to take a little time it's Hiddleston, with all that talent at his back—but he's got the reputation, he's got the franchise, and now he very likely has the big splashy part that will seal the deal.
They're saying Hiddleston submitted a homemade "makeup test" to the producers as part of his bid to land the job (and let's take a moment to appreciate that he did at least contain his campaigning to backchannel efforts. At least he wasn't on his knees on a red carpet, begging for it, like so many of his peers have done for lesser roles). Someone please throw that sh*t up on Youtube for the rest of us to enjoy. You know it's bound to be unintentionally hilarious.
(Lainey: here's Hiddleston at the Movie Awards last week when he took so long to thank people I thought he thought he was performing Shakespeare.)


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2012-04-30: Information Station Column
This month I thought I would share some interesting facts that were just released from the State Library. Here are some Library Stats that you may find interesting.
*In 2011 Iowa public libraries "educated and entertained 1,465,349 attendees with 67,215 library programs. If the attendees paid a commercial admission fee of $4 per person, they would have paid nearly $6 million!"
*In 2011 Iowa public libraries "delivered 46,440 programs for kids. That's more than 134 story hours, classes and other events every day!"
*In 2011 Iowa public libraries "owned more than 14 million items, including books, DVDs, CDs, magazines, and downloadable items. That is nearly five items for every Iowan."
*In 2011 Iowa public libraries "checked out 29.5 million items. If Iowans had to pay for each item, at $12 an item, it would have cost about $354 million or about $118 per Iowan."
*In 2011 Iowa public libraries "provided free Internet computers that were used over 4 million times. If each computer were used for 30 minutes at a commercial location, it would have cost about $24 million or $8 per Iowan."
And all of these services listed above were provided at an average cost of $35.21 per Iowan! Now that is a deal! Make sure you stop in your local library and see what's available to you!!
Book Review:
Lisa Genova is a writer that is well known – her book Still Alice, is still topping charts. Her latest, Left Neglected, is just as intriguing. I think what makes Genova so interesting to me is her background in neuroscience – you can tell she has this as she writes – she has insight into these conditions that many would not have. Left Neglected is fabulous – it is the story of Sarah Nickerson – whose story is like many others – a career-driven, fast-paced life with three kids. But it all changes one day during her commute to work – she looks down to make a phone call and doesn't realize that cars are stopping on the freeway ahead of her…
She is an a serious car accident – spends months in the hospital and therapy – and comes out with Left Neglect – a condition where her mind basically pays attention to nothing on the left side of her body – or on the left side of her – period. Fascinating and thought-provoking – this book will leave you grateful and inspired!


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The Central Connecticut softball team swept a doubleheader from Bryant on Sunday to close out the regular season. The victories give the Blue Devils 31 for the season, which sets a new single-season record. The Blue Devils (31-19, 11-9 NEC) won the first game 6-2 and then took game two 14-3 behind an eight run first inning.
Game One
The Blue Devils took game one by a score of 6-2 behind seven innings from freshman Laura Messina and a grand slam by sophomore Arielle Bruno.
Freshman Alyssa McCoart got the Blue Devils on the board with a solo home run in the top of the second inning.
Bruno upped Central's lead to 6-0 with a grand slam in the five run fourth inning. Freshman Kat Malcolm doubled to start the inning and McCoart walked with one out. Junior Macy Stefanskireached on a fielder's choice to load the bases and pinch hitter Sarah Emery singled to score Central's first run of the frame. Bruno was the next batter and she came through with a long drive over the left field fence.
Messina (22-11) limited the Bulldogs to two runs on eight hits as she picked up her 22nd win of the season. Messina went the distance earning her 26th complete game of the season. She struck out eight and walked just one batter.
Both of Bryant's runs came on a two-run home run in the sixth inning.
The home run was the seventh of the season for Bruno. She went three-for-four in the game.
Junior Nicole Springer and freshman Ashley Black both had a pair of hits in the game.
Game Two
Bruno started game two with an infield single, black walked and Brown singled to load the bases. Springer was hit by a pitch to force in a run and Malcolm walked to plate the second run of the game. Senior Sarah Vlahos reached on an error, which led to a pair of runs.
After a walk by McCoart, Stefanski hit into a fielder's choice, which scored a run and a second run came in because of a throwing error on the play. After a fly out, Bruno walked and an error on a ground ball hit by Black loaded the bases again. Brown reached on an error, which forced in a run, and Springer singled off the pitcher to score the final run of the frame.
In all, the Blue Devils scored eight runs on three hits in the inning.
The Blue Devils added a single run in the second inning when McCoart hit an RBI double that scored Vlahos who had walked to start the frame.
Central loaded the bases again in the fourth inning and a walk to Black forced in the tenth run.
A RBI double by Stefanski and a three-run home run by junior Stephanie Chotkevys helped the Blue Devils score four more runs in the fifth inning.
Senior Abby Harpp worked the bottom half of the frame to keep her team ahead and end the game because of the eight run rule.
Junior Jordan Tingley (6-3) worked the first four innings to earn the victory. She allowed just one unearned run on five hits. She walked two and struck out two.
Bruno, Springer and McCoart all had two hits in the game.
Chotkevys drove in a game-high three runs.
The previous single-season win record of 29 was set last season.
"Today was a nice way to end the season, obviously, we fell short of our ultimate goal of reaching the NEC Tournament," head coach Jeff Franquet said after the sweep. "We pitched and hit well today, the sweep was a nice way for us to end the season. As a program I think it is nice that we passed last year's win total and that we can say our team had a 30-win season."


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From Comcast SportsNetSYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- After his Syracuse Orange had run away to another victory, men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim turned his focus to a far more important matter. Boeheim said Tuesday that "what happened on my watch" will be revealed once police complete their inquiry into child molestation accusations against his former longtime assistant. "I never worried about my job status in 36 years," Boeheim said at his first postgame news conference since Bernie Fine was fired Sunday. "I do my job. What happened on my watch, we will see. When the investigation is done, we will find out what happened on my watch." Advocates for sex abuse victims said Boeheim should resign or be fired for adamantly defending Fine and verbally disparaging two former Syracuse ball boys, two of the three men who have accused Fine of molesting them. "Based on what I knew at that time, there were three investigations and nothing was corroborated," Boeheim said. "That was the basis for me saying what I said. I said what I knew at the time." He said he didn't regret backing Fine when the allegations were first made public. "I've been with him for 36 years, known him for 48 years, went to school with him," Boeheim said. "I think you owe a debt of allegiance and gratitude for what he did for the program. That's what my reaction was. So be it." Fine has denied the allegations. Boeheim received a standing ovation when he walked onto the court that bears his name for the game against Eastern Michigan that the Orange won, 84-48. Boeheim said there's a misconception that he's bigger than the program because of his long tenure and great success. He has 863 career wins, fifth all-time in Division I. "If I was gone today, this program would be fine. This program would do great," he said. "Ten years from now, this program will do great. This is not Jim Boeheim. This is Syracuse University's basketball program. It is not about me. It never has been about me." Asked to comment on Boeheim's status earlier Tuesday, Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor said: "Coach Boeheim is our coach. ... We're very pleased with what he said Sunday night, and we stand by it." After initially saying Fine's first two accusers were lying to make money in the wake of the Penn State University child sex abuse scandal, Boeheim backed off those comments Sunday. "What is most important is that this matter be fully investigated and that anyone with information be supported to come forward so that the truth can be found," Boeheim said in a statement. "I deeply regret any statements I made that might have inhibited that from occurring or been insensitive to victims of abuse." One of the accusers, Bobby Davis, first contacted Syracuse police in 2002 regarding Fine, but there was no investigation because the statute of limitations had passed. Kevin Quinn, a Syracuse spokesman, said police did not inform the university of Davis' allegations then. On Tuesday, Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler said Dennis DuVal, a former SU basketball player who was police chief in 2002, knew of the allegations against Fine. Fowler said DuVal, who played for the Orange from 1972-74, was aware of Davis' accusations in 2002 that Fine sexually abused him. Because Davis said the abuse stopped 12 years earlier, Syracuse Det. Doug Fox told him the statute of limitations had passed, meaning an arrest was not possible. Fox advised his supervisor in the abused persons unit, but didn't file a formal report. The detective is still with the department, but not in the same unit. A phone message left with DuVal was not immediately returned. Fowler said Syracuse police will change their procedures moving forward. "I was not the chief in 2002 and I cannot change the procedures in place at that time or the way this matter was then handled," Fowler said in the statement. "But what I can and will do as chief today is ensure that moving forward all reports of sexual abuse are formally documented." On Nov. 17, Davis' allegations resurfaced. Davis, now 39, told ESPN that Fine molested him beginning in 1984 and that the sexual contact continued until he was around 27. A ball boy for six years, Davis said the abuse occurred at Fine's home, at Syracuse basketball facilities and on team road trips, including the 1987 Final Four. Davis' stepbrother, Mike Lang, 45, who also was a ball boy, told ESPN that Fine began molesting him while he was in the fifth or sixth grade. Boeheim said during his news conference that ball boys have never traveled with the team. A third accuser went public Sunday. Zach Tomaselli, who faces sexual assault charges in Maine involving a 14-year-old boy, said he told police last week that Fine molested him in 2002 in a Pittsburgh hotel room. Now the U.S. Attorney's Office and the U.S. Secret Service have taken the lead in the Fine investigation. Also Sunday, ESPN played an audiotape, obtained and recorded by Davis, of an October 2002 telephone conversation between him and Fine's wife, Laurie. ESPN said it hired a voice recognition expert to verify the voice on the tape and the network said it was determined to be that of Laurie Fine. During the call to the woman, Davis repeatedly asks her what she knew about the alleged molestation and she says she knew "everything that went on." On Tuesday night, Boeheim began his postgame news conference by reading a statement: "It's hard to put everything into words," Boeheim said. "I thought a lot today about different things. I'm saddened in many ways by what's unfolded, and I'm looking forward to a time when we can talk and learn from what has happened. "There is an important investigation going on, which I fully support, and I can't add anything to that by speaking more about that now," he said. "The investigation and all that we can learn from it is what is important." Before the game, some fans offered their support for Boeheim. "I feel sorry that he stuck up for a friend," said 40-year-old Mike Wong of Syracuse. "He was just sticking up for Bernie. He didn't understand the situation. I think the chancellor did the right thing." "It's sad," added 29-year-old Michael Knowles of Syracuse. "We've all stuck up for a friend and then realized we shouldn't have. He (Boeheim) didn't do anything wrong." Not everyone agrees. In the last home game against Colgate 10 days ago, Fine's customary seat was left vacant, and players tapped it as a symbolic gesture in support of Fine. On Tuesday night, there was no empty seat. And the Rev. Robert Hoatson, president of Road to Recovery, a group that supports victims of sexual abuse, was pushing for another empty seat. "We want to keep saying that Jim Boeheim should resign or be fired," Hoatson said.
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