How long can the Pulitzers keep any reputation? The Time won the award in the 1930s for their lies about the Holdomor, won it in 2018 for their lies about the Russian collusion hoax and then won another prize for the moronic yet dangerous 1619 project.
I would be embarrassed to get a Pulitzer. Ar this point, I think the Stalin prize would be more prestigious.
The Pulitzer committee is just a left-wing cabal that gives each other awards. Years ago I remember the Pultizer committee giving out an ancient Katherine Graham of the Washington Post a Pulitzer for a book that she almost certainly didn't write herself.
Max Planck famously said: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." If true even in science, consider how much more so for humanities and journalism, where the notion of objective reality has been debunked for years. As with the Oscars, the only vibe shift is no one cares anymore.
Science is hard to fake. You ever wonder why Congress rarely has scientists as members. Because Congress is made up of fake people. Scientists make terrible liars.
The Oscars is an excellent comparison. I'm not a trivia buff, but I could tell you the best movie winners for nearly every year of the nineteen-seventies and -eighties, but I have no idea who has won the award for the last decade.
I'm even worse. After about 1980, I couldn't care less about the Academy Awards. Give me "On the Waterfront" or "The Searchers" any day before any of the modern swill.
Except both General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics were pretty widely accepted within the scientific community once they had the data to back them up. Planck’s own career undermines his thesis. This doesn’t mean there aren’t skeptics and holdouts, but he saw a revolution in physics.
No vibe shift at the Met Gala, which is honoring an exhibit called Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. Obviously this means the distinguished black guests have been displaying their penchant for restrained and elegant clothing with broad appeal…OK, I kid, it’s stereotypically garish and when it comes to the men it’s frankly pretty gay. It has literally no applicability to everyday wear unless we are talking about Billy Porter. LeBron begged off appearing because of injury, but I would honestly not be surprised if it’s because his advisors presented some designs from clothiers that wanted to dress him and it’s simply not masculine and would look especially ridiculous on his large frame. Naturally he is being criticized for his absence.
Back in the late 1980s, Michael Jordan, a snappy dresser in business suits, did local TV commercials for Chicago's top menswear retailer, Bigsby & Kruthers. When they stopped carrying extra long suits, I asked the salesman how Jordan can fit into a Long. He looked at me like a homeless person had wandered in and said, Michael Jordan hasn't bought a suit off the rack since he went pro.
I liked how Scottie Pippen, who grew up incredibly poor, started wearing excellent suits under Jordan's tutelage.
This reminds me of the time I made a comment to friend that I admired Arnold Schwarzenegger because he was branching out as a businessman due to his affiliation with a Planet Hollywood. My friend who owned and operated a small business he had built from the ground up looked at me like I was an idiot. Point taken.
Before he became a movie star, Arnold owned an apartment building that Greg Cochran lived in. Greg used to see the bodybuilder come around to talk to the building manager about business.
I physically saw Michael Jordan and a couple of other NBA (and some NFL players) when I lived in Chicago. I used to go to a high priced gym with the usual rows of cardio stuff, but an insane weight room. Some NBA and NFL players would frequent it. Michael Jordan was tall, but also incredibly lean and very muscular (he also once told me to do more reps on a leg curl machine). Anyhow, to fit his frame with an off the rack suit he would have had to buy a suit for a very fat man and then try to tailor it. Which would look ridiculous. He really had no choice but to get custom suits. Not that he objected.
Most NFL players who look at all decent wear at least made-to-measure suits. Not all of them have great taste, of course, but their physiques are so unusual that they just can’t buy off the rack and have it fit at all normally. An off the rack suit can be tailored within limits, but at some point you can’t change the basic construction of the garment.
Also, Walter Payton was famous for running up that hill with a bad of rocks on his back, but I once saw him in the gym doing curls with 100 pound dumbbells.
I don’t recall if it had the same name, but it’s now Lakeshore Sports and fitness. It connected through an indoor walkway from the Amaco building (now the Aon Center) and a hotel — I think it was the Fairmont? The hotel used that gym as its fitness center, and a lot of Bulls and Bears players would stay at the hotel when they had to be downtown and didn’t want to drive into the burbs. Plus it and The East Bank Club were at the time the best upscale gyms in Chicago.
I was also a member of the East Bank Club at one point, and now that I think of it, that may have been where I saw Walter Payton. But I know I saw Jordan, Dennis Rodman, Richard Dent and Jimbo Covert at the one near the Amaco building. Covert told me not to rack the plates after I was done benching because he had to warm up.
It’s really fn irritating Vucci didn’t win for that pic and they gave it to a guy who just happened to be taking a picture of Trump when the bullet whizzed by. No skill whatsoever. What a bunch of cowards.
Mills was inches and milliseconds from getting as great a picture as Vucci. He's been photographing Presidents for over 40 years and he's really good at his job.
I’d like to see a Jay Leno type man-in-the-street quiz in which passers-by are asked to guess the percentage of blacks in the population. I’d wager there would be zero answers less than the actual number.
My very unscientific polling of acquaintances indicates that folks place the percentages of black Americans at around 25%. Interestingly, the same is true in regards to estimates of the American population that is homosexual.
I had a high school teacher circa 1977 claim that homosexuals were ten percent of the population. Later I realize he was homosexual himself and lived in Dupont Circle, Washington DC's premier homosexual stomping grounds.
Isn't there something in the Book of Revelation about what happens if Sailer should ever win the Pulitzer?
But seriously folks, aren't these stale pale male arbiters of cultural zeitgeist and excellence sort of like the curators of Hitler's degenerate art exhibit? Their value lies in identifying the good stuff in the negative space created by their disdain (or maybe that's the positive space).
Are there any "prizes" in the public realm that are given for merit and not a political agenda. The Pulitzer has been trash for decades. The Tonys, Emmies, Academies, Grammies, etc. are worthless self-conrotatory wastes of time. The New York review of books, really? The Nobels, especially literature, Peace and general wonderfulness are worthless as gauges of excellence.
Teacher of the year? Only for the approved political stand. The Red Carpet on the way to get a meaningless award is a nice place to show your tits and ghastly tux but is it representative of the best we can be? Can it be that in the American desire for a ruling class, knighthoods, not allowed here, can be represented with an Academy Award. a Pulitzer, what a crowning achievement. At least Ringo sold a lot of records.
I don't much care for J. Edgar Hoover but he was certainly white. As a student at George Washington University, he was a member of the Alpha Nu Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order, a Southern fraternity that was born to "carry on the legacy of the incomparable flower of Southern Knighthood." I don't think such a fraternity would allow a high-yellow into its membership. I am not even sure that GWU took in black students at that time. I would guess that Hoover took segregation for granted for most of his life. Washington's schools were segregated until 1954.
I dislike the Hoover that was a snoop, a man who made other people's personal business his own business. As for the claims that Hoover was black, that was often a nasty accusation in the early 1900s. President Warren Harding was often accused of having black blood. Both Hoover and Harding were a shade darker than the usual white of their times.
My small college in NC had a black KA brother 45 years ago. I don't believe he wore the gray uniform for their Old South party. In fact, they may have all switched to civilian 19th cent. dress in his honor. IIRC, by his normal clothes, he pinged my gaydar--one ping only.
OT but I used to work with a lawyer who got his J.D. at GWU. His father was a friend of Nevada Senator Pat McCarran, so even though 1L's weren't supposed to hold jobs, the Senator got him a job as a page in the Capitol. In the basement they had a barbershop, and he got friendly with the head barber. One day he asked the guy how much JFK tipped, and the guy said, "a nickel."
So, Linnaeus made the single most important contribution to our investigation of the living world, but he was also a jerk with prejudices completely unremarkable for his times. Dig him up and burn him!
But, was Buffon’s hypothesis that the differences between the races were superficial adaptations absurd at the time?
The human ability to extinguish animal species by eating them is impressive in a way. Cremieux points to the fact that it took centuries for the giant sea turtle to be named and studied by scientists, because the sailors kept eating them on the voyage back home, before the animals could be studied properly:
"Giant tortoises have the great misfortune of tasting delicious to humans. Although Charles Darwin – whose theories of natural selection owed so much to the Galápagos species – thought them to be “indifferent” eating, most early accounts were ecstatic. One giant tortoise would feed several men and both its meat and its fat were perfectly digestible. Oil made from tortoise fat was medically useful – efficacious against colds, cramps, indigestion and all manner of ‘distempers’ – and tasted wonderful. Even better were the delicious liver and the rich bone marrow. The eggs, inevitably, were the best anyone had ever eaten. Even those sailors who found the tortoise visually unappetising were soon converted. They proved invaluable for long sea voyages because they could be taken alive onboard ships and survive for at least six months without food or water. Stacked helplessly on their backs, they could be killed and eaten as and when necessary. Better still, because they sucked up gallons of water at a time and kept it in a special bladder, a carefully butchered tortoise was also a fountain of cool, perfectly drinkable water."
Something that is very funny about the modern enthusiasm for traditional plant medicine is that if you actually speak to traditional peoples they have a lot of Chinese medicine style beliefs about various animal parts, especially animal fats. Of course these never feature in "is the cure for cancer in the rainforest? Does this crinkly eyed shaman interviewed by an earnest hippy know it?" style stories, nor in the ginned up accounts of herbal knowledge being central to "traditional indigenous lifeways" that now feature everywhere from Brazil to Scotland. Whether the ancestor is a Pict or a Bororo, they are always portrayed gently wandering about gathering plants that urban yoga enthusiasts approve of, never slaughtering odd little critters for fat and bile to use in sympathetic magic inspired recipes.
How long can the Pulitzers keep any reputation? The Time won the award in the 1930s for their lies about the Holdomor, won it in 2018 for their lies about the Russian collusion hoax and then won another prize for the moronic yet dangerous 1619 project.
I would be embarrassed to get a Pulitzer. Ar this point, I think the Stalin prize would be more prestigious.
The Pulitzer committee is just a left-wing cabal that gives each other awards. Years ago I remember the Pultizer committee giving out an ancient Katherine Graham of the Washington Post a Pulitzer for a book that she almost certainly didn't write herself.
Max Planck famously said: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." If true even in science, consider how much more so for humanities and journalism, where the notion of objective reality has been debunked for years. As with the Oscars, the only vibe shift is no one cares anymore.
Very true. My first reaction to Steve’s headline was to realize that I haven’t thought about the Pulitzer in years. Same with the Nobel prizes.
The hard science Nobels have not yet gone Woke.
Come on, Sheldon Cooper got one a few years ago.
Science is hard to fake. You ever wonder why Congress rarely has scientists as members. Because Congress is made up of fake people. Scientists make terrible liars.
The Oscars is an excellent comparison. I'm not a trivia buff, but I could tell you the best movie winners for nearly every year of the nineteen-seventies and -eighties, but I have no idea who has won the award for the last decade.
I'm even worse. After about 1980, I couldn't care less about the Academy Awards. Give me "On the Waterfront" or "The Searchers" any day before any of the modern swill.
A fair comment. But the 1990s were also a pretty good decade for movies, even if the Academy Awards at that time didn't highlight the best films.
Except both General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics were pretty widely accepted within the scientific community once they had the data to back them up. Planck’s own career undermines his thesis. This doesn’t mean there aren’t skeptics and holdouts, but he saw a revolution in physics.
No vibe shift at the Met Gala, which is honoring an exhibit called Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. Obviously this means the distinguished black guests have been displaying their penchant for restrained and elegant clothing with broad appeal…OK, I kid, it’s stereotypically garish and when it comes to the men it’s frankly pretty gay. It has literally no applicability to everyday wear unless we are talking about Billy Porter. LeBron begged off appearing because of injury, but I would honestly not be surprised if it’s because his advisors presented some designs from clothiers that wanted to dress him and it’s simply not masculine and would look especially ridiculous on his large frame. Naturally he is being criticized for his absence.
Back in the late 1980s, Michael Jordan, a snappy dresser in business suits, did local TV commercials for Chicago's top menswear retailer, Bigsby & Kruthers. When they stopped carrying extra long suits, I asked the salesman how Jordan can fit into a Long. He looked at me like a homeless person had wandered in and said, Michael Jordan hasn't bought a suit off the rack since he went pro.
I liked how Scottie Pippen, who grew up incredibly poor, started wearing excellent suits under Jordan's tutelage.
Weren’t you working in the advertising and marketing industry at the time?
This reminds me of the time I made a comment to friend that I admired Arnold Schwarzenegger because he was branching out as a businessman due to his affiliation with a Planet Hollywood. My friend who owned and operated a small business he had built from the ground up looked at me like I was an idiot. Point taken.
Before he became a movie star, Arnold owned an apartment building that Greg Cochran lived in. Greg used to see the bodybuilder come around to talk to the building manager about business.
I physically saw Michael Jordan and a couple of other NBA (and some NFL players) when I lived in Chicago. I used to go to a high priced gym with the usual rows of cardio stuff, but an insane weight room. Some NBA and NFL players would frequent it. Michael Jordan was tall, but also incredibly lean and very muscular (he also once told me to do more reps on a leg curl machine). Anyhow, to fit his frame with an off the rack suit he would have had to buy a suit for a very fat man and then try to tailor it. Which would look ridiculous. He really had no choice but to get custom suits. Not that he objected.
Most NFL players who look at all decent wear at least made-to-measure suits. Not all of them have great taste, of course, but their physiques are so unusual that they just can’t buy off the rack and have it fit at all normally. An off the rack suit can be tailored within limits, but at some point you can’t change the basic construction of the garment.
Also, Walter Payton was famous for running up that hill with a bad of rocks on his back, but I once saw him in the gym doing curls with 100 pound dumbbells.
Which gym?
I don’t recall if it had the same name, but it’s now Lakeshore Sports and fitness. It connected through an indoor walkway from the Amaco building (now the Aon Center) and a hotel — I think it was the Fairmont? The hotel used that gym as its fitness center, and a lot of Bulls and Bears players would stay at the hotel when they had to be downtown and didn’t want to drive into the burbs. Plus it and The East Bank Club were at the time the best upscale gyms in Chicago.
I was also a member of the East Bank Club at one point, and now that I think of it, that may have been where I saw Walter Payton. But I know I saw Jordan, Dennis Rodman, Richard Dent and Jimbo Covert at the one near the Amaco building. Covert told me not to rack the plates after I was done benching because he had to warm up.
I was driving down Lake Shore Drive once and looked to my left and there was Dennis Rodman on his Harley twelve feet away from me.
Quite a sight ...
It’s really fn irritating Vucci didn’t win for that pic and they gave it to a guy who just happened to be taking a picture of Trump when the bullet whizzed by. No skill whatsoever. What a bunch of cowards.
Mills was inches and milliseconds from getting as great a picture as Vucci. He's been photographing Presidents for over 40 years and he's really good at his job.
That’s great, but he didn’t get the shot and still won the award.
I think the left likes the Mills photo better because they realize how close Trump came from having his head pumpkinned. Only a quarter-inch away!
Whenever you see the word "deeply," you know you're dealing with a committed leftist.
The Met gala is hilarious. Every single person is black. You’d think the country is 92% African American.
I’d like to see a Jay Leno type man-in-the-street quiz in which passers-by are asked to guess the percentage of blacks in the population. I’d wager there would be zero answers less than the actual number.
13 percent, right. Many Americans would guess at least 25 % and many as high as 40 %.
My very unscientific polling of acquaintances indicates that folks place the percentages of black Americans at around 25%. Interestingly, the same is true in regards to estimates of the American population that is homosexual.
I had a high school teacher circa 1977 claim that homosexuals were ten percent of the population. Later I realize he was homosexual himself and lived in Dupont Circle, Washington DC's premier homosexual stomping grounds.
He must be editing Wikipedia now, that’s pretty close to their figure. Thirty years ago it was around 2% if I recall correctly.
As a former leftist, I was shocked when I realized the black population is not 13%. Such a small minority to be given so much power.
I’ve done this with friends. 40% is about what I hear. I need smarter friends.
It's not?
Isn't there something in the Book of Revelation about what happens if Sailer should ever win the Pulitzer?
But seriously folks, aren't these stale pale male arbiters of cultural zeitgeist and excellence sort of like the curators of Hitler's degenerate art exhibit? Their value lies in identifying the good stuff in the negative space created by their disdain (or maybe that's the positive space).
Are there any "prizes" in the public realm that are given for merit and not a political agenda. The Pulitzer has been trash for decades. The Tonys, Emmies, Academies, Grammies, etc. are worthless self-conrotatory wastes of time. The New York review of books, really? The Nobels, especially literature, Peace and general wonderfulness are worthless as gauges of excellence.
Teacher of the year? Only for the approved political stand. The Red Carpet on the way to get a meaningless award is a nice place to show your tits and ghastly tux but is it representative of the best we can be? Can it be that in the American desire for a ruling class, knighthoods, not allowed here, can be represented with an Academy Award. a Pulitzer, what a crowning achievement. At least Ringo sold a lot of records.
I don't much care for J. Edgar Hoover but he was certainly white. As a student at George Washington University, he was a member of the Alpha Nu Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order, a Southern fraternity that was born to "carry on the legacy of the incomparable flower of Southern Knighthood." I don't think such a fraternity would allow a high-yellow into its membership. I am not even sure that GWU took in black students at that time. I would guess that Hoover took segregation for granted for most of his life. Washington's schools were segregated until 1954.
I dislike the Hoover that was a snoop, a man who made other people's personal business his own business. As for the claims that Hoover was black, that was often a nasty accusation in the early 1900s. President Warren Harding was often accused of having black blood. Both Hoover and Harding were a shade darker than the usual white of their times.
My small college in NC had a black KA brother 45 years ago. I don't believe he wore the gray uniform for their Old South party. In fact, they may have all switched to civilian 19th cent. dress in his honor. IIRC, by his normal clothes, he pinged my gaydar--one ping only.
OT but I used to work with a lawyer who got his J.D. at GWU. His father was a friend of Nevada Senator Pat McCarran, so even though 1L's weren't supposed to hold jobs, the Senator got him a job as a page in the Capitol. In the basement they had a barbershop, and he got friendly with the head barber. One day he asked the guy how much JFK tipped, and the guy said, "a nickel."
So, Linnaeus made the single most important contribution to our investigation of the living world, but he was also a jerk with prejudices completely unremarkable for his times. Dig him up and burn him!
But, was Buffon’s hypothesis that the differences between the races were superficial adaptations absurd at the time?
The human ability to extinguish animal species by eating them is impressive in a way. Cremieux points to the fact that it took centuries for the giant sea turtle to be named and studied by scientists, because the sailors kept eating them on the voyage back home, before the animals could be studied properly:
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1918041787404296538
https://bylinetimes.com/2021/12/21/the-upside-down-slow-company-the-shameful-history-of-humans-and-the-giant-tortoise/
"Giant tortoises have the great misfortune of tasting delicious to humans. Although Charles Darwin – whose theories of natural selection owed so much to the Galápagos species – thought them to be “indifferent” eating, most early accounts were ecstatic. One giant tortoise would feed several men and both its meat and its fat were perfectly digestible. Oil made from tortoise fat was medically useful – efficacious against colds, cramps, indigestion and all manner of ‘distempers’ – and tasted wonderful. Even better were the delicious liver and the rich bone marrow. The eggs, inevitably, were the best anyone had ever eaten. Even those sailors who found the tortoise visually unappetising were soon converted. They proved invaluable for long sea voyages because they could be taken alive onboard ships and survive for at least six months without food or water. Stacked helplessly on their backs, they could be killed and eaten as and when necessary. Better still, because they sucked up gallons of water at a time and kept it in a special bladder, a carefully butchered tortoise was also a fountain of cool, perfectly drinkable water."
Something that is very funny about the modern enthusiasm for traditional plant medicine is that if you actually speak to traditional peoples they have a lot of Chinese medicine style beliefs about various animal parts, especially animal fats. Of course these never feature in "is the cure for cancer in the rainforest? Does this crinkly eyed shaman interviewed by an earnest hippy know it?" style stories, nor in the ginned up accounts of herbal knowledge being central to "traditional indigenous lifeways" that now feature everywhere from Brazil to Scotland. Whether the ancestor is a Pict or a Bororo, they are always portrayed gently wandering about gathering plants that urban yoga enthusiasts approve of, never slaughtering odd little critters for fat and bile to use in sympathetic magic inspired recipes.
Or collecting tiger penises for ED.