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Boomer Suicide

Inspired, of course, by the greatest movie in the history of moving pictures.

Feel the peace of your vaccines

Your body crawls with spike proteins

Your doctor swears it won’t do harm

Just stick that jab into your arm

Boomer suicide, just do it

Boomer suicide, they knew it

Boomer suicide, jump to it

Boomer suicide, just do it

You don’t believe they’d lie to you

It’s getting hard to breathe

So lay your weary head to rest

You failed the final Darwin test

Boomer suicide, just do it

Boomer suicide, they knew it

Boomer suicide, jump to it

Boomer suicide, just do it

In the event that you happen to find this amusing to some degree, please note that it is not an invitation to tell the same joke again.

Please clap, or else

An Englishman has been arrested for showing insufficient enthusiasm about the failure of three African players to successfully make penalty kicks:

Greater Manchester Police have arrested the Savills estate agent who allegedly posted a racist tweet about black England football stars after the Three Lions lost the European Championship to Italy.

Andrew Bone, 37, self-presented at Cheadle Heath police station this morning and was subsequently arrested on suspicion of an offence under Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act. 

It’s a good thing Shaquille O’Neal is retired. They’d have had to arrest the entire Los Angeles Lakers fan base after one of Shaq’s epic free throw performances in the NBA playoffs. 

It seems to me the intrinsic problem with declaring that there is no room for racists in society means that anyone who can be accused of racism – which is nearly everyone of European descent – are being left with absolutely no alternative but to eliminate all the anti-racists from society.

Which means, of course, that there will be war.

Vaxxbara

We’re seeing an increasing number of comments from new commenters that are some variant of the following:

I am the only one left in my family who has not taken the vaccine. All of them asking me too many questions. Even my brother who is a nurse in UK is asking me why I am not willing to be vaccinated. It really saddens me that I now have to think about the probability that one of them will get a severe adverse effect once they have the 2nd dose.

This is a social media campaign to make those who are not vaccinated feel as if they are alone. It’s cloaked in feigned concern for the family members, but it’s a fake comment designed to put social pressure on the unmutated nevertheless. And it’s not the only such campaign.

Wednesday AM Arktoons

ALT★HERO Episode 12: You Want Bama?

SOMETHING BIG Episode 1: We Are Not Alone

Arkhaven Comics very pleased to announce a new Arktoons comic series from The Legend Chuck Dixon and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles illustrator Frank Fosco. It’s called Something Big and it is a brand new story that begins with a mysterious change of course by Gorki’s Comet that brings it to Earth orbit. Something Big will be published in print by Arkhaven.

Thirty years after an alien invasion brings mankind to the brink of extinction, one man realizes there’s still a buck to be made. Larry Dorfman can’t save mankind from alien conquerors, But he can take them for a bundle. Crime doesn’t stop for the apocalypse. You can’t keep a bad man down. Larry Dorfman’s looking at the biggest score of his criminal career; a fortune in gold at the heart of an alien hive. Alien invaders have stolen our planet, Larry Dorfman just wants his cut.

We have a number of new series that are currently in development, from both independent creators and from Arkhaven. Silenziosa, The Grey Claw and Something Big are the first three examples of the new series, which are made possible by Arkhaven’s subscribers. This brings the total number of series currently on Arktoons to 36.

Biden burns the spies

The Biden administration intends to go public with the Secret Stasi:

The White House has decided to hit back harder on misinformation and scare tactics after Republican lawmakers and conservative activists pledged to fight the administration’s stated plans to go “door-to-door” to increase vaccination rates. The pushback will include directly calling out social media platforms and conservative news shows that promote such tactics.

“The big misinterpretation that Fox News or whomever else is saying is that they are essentially envisioning a bunch of federal workers knocking on your door, telling you you’ve got to do something that you don’t want to do,” Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, said in an interview on Sunday. “That’s absolutely not the case, it’s trusted messengers who are part of the community doing that — not government officials….”

Indeed, over the past few weeks, criticism of the administration’s door-to-door vaccination strategy has increasingly become a fixture on Fox News, in addition to being a top topic on conservative social media posts and over SMS messages to cell phone users. It’s coming at a time when the highly contagious Delta variant is triggering a rise in hospitalizations and infections among those who have not been vaccinated. Those who are door knocking are individuals like pastors or grassroots organizers, not government bureaucrats.

These door-knockers will likely be people who don’t openly work for the federal government, but spy for it in some capacity. So, it would prove informative to take the names and pictures of any door-knockers who show up on your doorstep, as my assumption is that these “trusted messengers” won’t be people that the community knows and trusts, but rather, those whose reports are trusted by the government.

In other words, the person at your door won’t be your pastor or anyone you already know, but someone who lives a town or two over that you wouldn’t have previously seen, who is in possession of some sort of credentials that provides him with a vestige of credibility. And since it would be very counterproductive for there to be a publicly accessible catalog of all the spies; we’ll be informed this hypothesis is correct if some sort of law or Facebook policy is quickly announced to ban posting the identities and images of the door-knockers.

The funny thing is that according to Fauci, even though it won’t be Federal employees, they’ll still be “telling you you’ve got to do something you don’t want to do.” That should go over well with Americans….

Mailvox: statistics are racist

An English reader reviews the penalties of past tournaments. It would be interesting to review the data of the French, Germand, and Dutch teams to see if a similar dichotomy is revealed or if it is a statistical outlier peculiar to the English team. 

Your posts about the Euro final and black players not being composed under pressure got me thinking about historical penalty results for England.  I went back to the 1996 Euro and compiled the data for their eight shootouts since that tournament.  

  • 1996 Euro vs Spain (W)- whites 4/4, blacks N/A
  • 1996 Euro vs Germany (L)- whites 5/6, blacks N/A
  • 1998 WC vs Argentina (L)- whites 3/4, blacks 0/1
  • 2004 Euro vs Portugal (L)- whites 4/5, blacks 1/2
  • 2006 WC vs Portugal (L)- whites 1/4, blacks N/A
  • 2012 Euro vs Italy (L)- whites 2/2, blacks 0/2
  • 2018 WC vs Colombia (W)- whites 3/4, blacks 1/1
  • 2021 Euro vs Italy (L)- whites 2/2, blacks 0/3

Total: whites 24/31 (77{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6}) vs blacks 2/9 (22{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6}).  

In other words, blacks playing for England would have to make 22 straight penalties to have the same conversion percentage as English whites.  That’s one of the craziest sports stats I’ve ever seen.  Also, one could make the case that black underperformance directly cost England victories in at least two, and potentially four, big games. Diversity is a strength?

A substantial point against this observation is the famous penalty shootout that settled the 2012 Zambia vs Ivory Coast Africa Cup of Nations final, in which the first 14 shooters all hit their penalties. My conclusion is that the sample size is too small to be significant. We don’t have sufficient data to have an opinion. However, it is possible that the English managers are so eager to be not-racist that they are selecting inferior penalty-takers on the basis of their race.

I blame the racism

If only the blacks in South Africa weren’t oppressed by racist white people, they wouldn’t be rioting and looting. Wait a minute….

Okay, let’s try this again. If only racist white people hadn’t made fun of black players who can’t make their penalty shots, blacks in South Africa wouldn’t be rioting and looting. That’s better.
South Africa is in the grip of its worst unrest since the end of apartheid with shopkeepers firing at looters and a woman throwing her baby from a burning mall roof as violence sparked by the jailing of ex-president Jacob Zuma entered its fifth day today. 
At least 45 people have now died – including 10 tramped to death during a stampede at a looted shopping mall – in riots centered around KwaZulu-Natal and Guateng provinces that began last week and raged through the weekend after 79-year-old Zuma was jailed for failing to cooperate with a corruption probe.
The army has been called in to help stem the unrest amid fears the violence could dramatically escalate after fearful citizens were forced to take the law into their own hands amid warnings that food supplies could soon run short if the looting doesn’t stop.

This is coming soon to cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington DC. It’s going to be fascinating to see what happens when a significant percentage of the American population figures out that the causal problem is not an excess supply of racism, but rather, an insufficiency.

Everyone who opposed the evils of apartheid must accept that this is the world they created. They were warned it would happen, but they refused to heed the warnings. And now everyone who is anti-racist, equalitarian, or “doesn’t see color” must be reminded: this is the future you have chosen.

It’s about time

 It never made sense to me that the NFL didn’t go back and compile sack statistics prior to the 1982 season. But now that they’ve been comprehensively compiled unofficially, it’s only a matter of time before the official statistics are updated. And given the way that the season has expanded from 14 to 16 to 17 games – I’m still a proponent of the 14-game season – it makes no sense to exclude them any longer.

The NFL has only officially counted player sacks since 1982, which means sack records and leaderboards present an incomplete history of pass rushing. In many cases we accept these holes in the official record and move on. After all, we don’t know how many rushing yards Jim Thorpe had, passing yards Paddy Driscoll had or even how many blocked shots Wilt Chamberlain had. Heck, we don’t even “officially” know how many tackles anyone had in 2020 (or any other season). However, thanks to Official Gamebooks, ‘unofficial’ tackle totals get published in many places (including here). In the case of sacks, thanks to decades of research by John Turney and Nick Webster, we have a very thorough accounting of the statistic all the way back to 1960. Given that accounting for these ‘unofficial’ statistics allows us to paint a richer picture of the history of the game, we think it is a no-brainer to present them on Pro Football Reference, allowing fans to gain a deeper appreciation of some of football’s biggest stars in the 1960s and 1970s. This isn’t terribly different from presenting RBI totals for baseball players from before 1920 (the first season the statistic was “official”). These additions allow us to print year-by-year and career sacks totals for not just legends such as Deacon Jones (173.5), Jack Youngblood (151.5), Alan Page (148.5), Carl Eller (133.5) and Joe Greene (77.5), but also for less recognized stars like Coy Bacon (130.5), Cedrick Hardman (122.5) and Jack Gregory (106.0) whose greatness and impact can now be more readily quantified.

The historic greatness of the Purple People Eaters becomes abundantly clear when one looks at the list of top 25 sackers. Three of the top 22 – Page, Eller, and Marshall – lined up together from 1967 to 1977.