Orwell's Animal Farm

I just read it.

I've had a copy on my shelf for probably 30 years and never read it.

I have an even earlier version of this, an old Signet mass-market paperback, at Amazon, George Orwell, Animal Farm.

The latest, cheaper Signet paperback is here. It's a great little read, heh.

Jennifer Delacruz Continued Hot Forecast

It's not just "warm." It's freakin' blazing hot! It was pushing 90 in the O.C. today, if not higher.

San Diego might not be getting the brunt of the high pressure, if it's any cooler than what we were having up here today.

Either way, here's the lovely Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:

Kendall Jenner Steals the Show in Cannes

I'll say.

Flaunt it while you got it, babe.

At London's Daily Mail:

Leggy Kendall Jenner steals the show in a spectacular fashion in Cannes https://t.co/yoGMsFsBtJ pic.twitter.com/31v0gZtRqR

— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) May 21, 2017

'Alien: Covenant' is Rad! (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Ridley Scott's 'Alien: Covenant' (VIDEO)."

My son and I caught the early-bird (cheapskate) showing, at the Tustin Marketplace 10 theaters.

That was an extremely enjoyable movie. You feel like you're plopped right back into the original "Alien" with Ellen Ripley (Signorney Weaver). And you don't feel like you've missed too much even if you haven't seen "Prometheus" (which Ridley Scott now thinks was a mistake).

The L.A. Times review (linked at top) was ecstatic about it. So was my son.

Here's the review at the New York Times, below. And do yourself a favor: Go out and have some fun --- see this movie.

See, "Review: ‘Alien: Covenant’ Stays on Brand With Its Terror."

"Alien: Covenant," upholding its long-lived brand, parcels out carefully measured portions of awe, wonder and terror https://t.co/nwkSCHb97s

— New York Times Arts (@nytimesarts) May 17, 2017

Louise Mensch Claims President Trump's About to Be Impeached

Following-up from yesterday, "Leftist Conspiracy Theories Flourishing in the Age of Trump."

I don't know. It's like spraying machine gun fire: you're likely to hit something after a while. Maybe Louise is about to get lucky and prove her detractors wrong.

Seen on Twitter (be sure to click through for the tweets):

Twitter Loses It When Louise Mensch Says ‘Marshal of the Supreme Court’ Told Trump About Impeachment https://t.co/jJp3gXUren pic.twitter.com/NNRFxTqvLf

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 20, 2017

This is just sad now. Eternal shame on the people with prominent platforms who have enabled this. https://t.co/ejxSElGnA7 pic.twitter.com/wcA5ngLCdg

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 20, 2017

'The Conceptual Penis'

Oh boy.

Truly a riot, and then sad at the same time.

A peer-review hoax along the lines of Alan Sokal's bogus "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," which was published in the peer-reviewed journal, the Social Text, in 1996.

Seen on Twitter:

THE CONCEPTUAL PENIS AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT: A SOKAL-STYLE HOAX ON GENDER STUDIEShttps://t.co/7HrFFslFET

— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) May 19, 2017

OMG! An academic journal just fell for a big hoax. Published fake paper on "the conceptual penis." Hilarious https://t.co/yGIGas0ksz

— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) May 19, 2017

Shout out to @peterboghossian who did a Sokal style hoax on the academic farce called Gender Studies https://t.co/du4iA6wf3b

— New Real Peer Review (@RealPeerReview) May 19, 2017

Ridley Scott's 'Alien: Covenant' (VIDEO)

I need to get caught up on this franchise.

The original "Aliens" is an all-time classic. I love watching that movie, heh.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Review: Ridley Scott's 'Alien: Covenant' is a sleek, suspenseful return to form."

Lawsuit Against Cal State San Marcos Challenges Left-Wing Bias (VIDEO)

I hope this is a the beginning of a trend and we see lots more of these lawsuits.

At the San Deigo Union-Tribune, "Suit accuses Cal State San Marcos of liberal bias":

A student club is suing Cal State San Marcos, alleging the university spent nearly $300,000 in mandatory student fees this year to promote gay- and gender-equality issues, but refused a request for $500 to bring in an outside speaker with conservative views.

The campus chapter of Students for Life, a national group opposed to abortion, filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging its members’ free-speech rights were violated, and the group was subjected to viewpoint discrimination. The suit also accuses the school of violating club members’ right to equal protection.

In the suit, the club argues the university’s student government rejected the funding request that would have been used to help bring in an out-of-state college professor for a presentation on “Abortion and Human Equality” this spring. The suit states that the student government told the campus club that it does not supply money for speakers fees.

However, the suit says, the student government — Associated Students Inc. — funds the LGBTQA Pride and Gender Equity centers with nearly $150,000 each a year, and that some of that money was spent this year on presentations like “Kink 101,” a talk by a local “sexologist.”

More.

And watch, at ABC News 10 San Diego, "Lawsuit claims liberal bias at Cal State San Marcos."

Leftist Conspiracy Theories Flourishing in the Age of Trump

I don't usually post Vox articles, but this one's talking about Louise Mensch, who I used to consider a friend on Twitter. She invited me to write at Heat Street, where's she's the editor-in-chief. But she writes at Patribotics blog, publishing all her theories and "investigations" into Russian meddling. She's acquired the reputation as a nutjob. It's kind of sad.

In any case, at Vox, "Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia: Why liberal conspiracy theories are flourishing in the age of Trump."

Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia https://t.co/mZX2ZxzXDp

— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) May 19, 2017

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Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz on Alleged Collusion Between President Trump and Russia (VIDEO)

Via the Conservative Treehouse:

Julian Assange Rape Investigation Is Dropped in Sweden

He's gonna be extradited to the U.S., one way or another.

British authorities said they'd arrest him if he leaves the Ecuadoran embassy.

At Memeorandum and Twitter:

⚡️ “Sweden drops rape investigation against #JulianAssange”https://t.co/etdgpxGNbe

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 19, 2017

Liz Habib Friday

She's following me on Twitter, for some reason.

Good morning Friday!!!! pic.twitter.com/rOC0DQNPnG

— Liz Habib (@LizHabib) May 19, 2017

Dana Loesch: 'For My Haters'

Happy warrior.

For all my haters. xoxo pic.twitter.com/sSFMOwQFj5

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 19, 2017

'Untitled' Jean-Michel Basquiat Painting Sells for 'Mind-Blowing' $110.5 Million at Auction

Amazing.

Apparently, the painting "remained in the same private collection since it was bought at auction in 1984 for $19,000."

That's a smart investment.

At the Telegraph U.K., "Basquiat painting fetches record $110.5 million at New York auction."

Basquiat painting fetches record $110.5 million at New York auctionhttps://t.co/ga2IlIw717 pic.twitter.com/W93LhJmmAA

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 19, 2017

Pamela Geller on Rebel Media: #CUNY Terror Invite to Jew-Hater Linda Sarsour (VIDEO)

Following-up from last month, "Controversy Surrounds Linda Sarsour Commencement Address at City University of New York (VIDEO)."

As noted, I'm against banning her talk. If we forcefully shut down leftists, we're no better than they are on the issue of public speech.

That said, here's Pamela, at the Rebel:

Protest Against New '10 Barrel Brewery' in San Diego (VIDEO)

This is a trip, because I've been drinking Elysian Brewing Company's Space Dust IPA, which come to find out, is really produced by Anheuser-Busch, which bought 10 Barrel Brewing a couple of years ago.

Actually, I'm against the protest. I'm for the free market to determine the winners and losers. If 10 Barrel's beers are no good, people won't drink them.

At the San Diego Union-Tribune, "East Village's 10 Barrel Brewing prepares for a party and a protest."

And at ABC News 10 San Diego:

Here We Go Again with the 'Special Counsel'

Ha!

This is great.

Following-up from yesterday, "Robert Mueller Named Special Counsel in Russia Investigation," where I wrote: "If memory serves, past special prosecutions have been a joke."

Well, yeah.

I think the editors at the Wall Street Journal have been reading my blog.

See, "The Special Counsel Mistake" (via Memeorandum and InfoWars):

The special counsel mistake: Rosenstein bends to political pressure, and here we go again. https://t.co/N6vgc24swr

— WSJ Editorial Page (@WSJopinion) May 18, 2017

Democrats and their media allies finally got their man. After weeks of political pressure, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein blinked late Wednesday and announced that he has named a special counsel to investigate Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election. These expeditions rarely end well for anyone, and Democrats are hoping this one will bedevil the Trump Administration for the next four years.

“My decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted,” said Mr. Rosenstein, which is nice but irrelevant. With Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused from the Russia probe, Mr. Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller III, who will now have unlimited time and resources to investigate more or less anything and anyone he wants.

While the decision will provide some short-term political relief, not least for Mr. Rosenstein, it also opens up years of political risk to the Trump Administration with no guarantee that the public will end up with any better understanding of what really happened.

The problem with special counsels, as we’ve learned time and again, is that they are by definition all but politically unaccountable...

RTWT.

Bella Thorne Flashes Pierced Nipple on Snapchat

I thought Disney was sending these girls back to school?

I guess that's for the up-and-coming stars. Ms. Bella's hit bottom and past redemption, I guess.

She's crazier than ever.

At Taxi Driver, "Bella Thorne Shows Us Her Piercing."

Bella Hadid Upskirt Flash on the Red Carpet at Cannes Film Festiva Opening Ceremony

At the Sun U.K., "IF IT AIN'T BROKE: Bella Hadid flashes her knickers (and a great deal of flesh) in Cannes … a YEAR after wearing THAT dress on the red carpet — The model hit the French film festival in eye-catching style."