We’re past the creepy season of silly “No Kings” protests and whining about the White House renovation. Halloween marks the start of one of our favorite times of the year: food. The three biggest food holidays arrive in two months: Halloween (Candyland for those of us with a sweet tooth), Thanksgiving, and Christmas. And the best two are still on the way – a kind of dessert before the main course. So who better to lead that than our friends at Peta.
1. Peta bites again
Peta, which wouldn’t exist if people didn’t eat animals, wear animals, have pets or look at animals in zoos, etc., is one of the strangest organizations out there. It’s so pro-animal and anti-human that it’s always good for a laugh or a joke. (We dropped an earlier item that was, well, funeral. Trust me, you’ll be better off.) This month it’s pretty much the same, except it’s about a memorial… for some of the tasty animals mentioned earlier.
Peta’s logo (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
According to Peta, “Wesleyan University, students, faculty and alumni are coming together to build a more compassionate campus.” No, they don’t do charity work or go to animal shelters to adopt cute puppies. That would make sense. They insist on a plaque. They “call on the school to install a PETA-supported ‘Wesleyan Animal Recognition Memorial’.” What is that, you ask? It is a memorial plaque “outside the dining hall that would commemorate the millions of chickens, cows, fish, pigs and others that were killed and served there as food.”
Yum. Imagine getting ready to eat your industrial burger, cafeteria burger, or chicken fingers and walking past a memorial dedicated to the dead bugs you’re about to eat. For what we are about to receive, thank you Peta.
2. I love those cop killers
The far-left news channel The Nation goes quite far with ‘F— the police’. The publication’s sports editor Dave Zirin wrote a loving piece about infamous cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal under the headline: “Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks with the clear voice of a free man.”
Newsflash, he’s not free and not really a man. “Mumia,” as his supporters call him, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the killing of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He managed to avoid the death penalty, but if he goes to almost any left-wing protest of the last forty years, a few idiots will be carrying “Free Mumia” signs.
Free-Mumia protesters gather outside the Criminal Justice Center in Center City Philadelphia, PA on August 30, 2013. (Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The timing of Zirin’s latest interview (he wrote about Mumia for Rolling Stone earlier this year) came just after “an event commemorating the recently departed revolutionary Assata Shakur, the former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army who escaped from a New Jersey prison to Cuba 46 years ago.”
In other words, another cop killer. According to Shakur’s loving farewell in the New York Times, she killed “state trooper Werner Foerster.” [who] was killed and another, James Harper, [who] was injured.”
Are you noticing a trend? You should. Shakur died in September, otherwise I would dwell more on the media’s lovefest for her. It was bad enough to see Zirin lamenting the poor health of “the country’s most famous political prisoner.” To be clear, I also regret his health, just not in the same way.
3. Hair today, gone tomorrow
Traveling the back roads of the United States, you’ll come across oddities: large monuments to furniture, trolls, a giant elephant, and even Carhenge. (Exactly what you think it is. Stonehenge is better.) Count crazy museums in that list. But we’re losing one: Leila’s Hair Museum in Missouri. Sadly, Leila Cohoon died at the age of 92 and now they are in the process of “housed the collection of more than 3,000 pieces in museums across the country,” according to the Associated Press.
AP describes the hair art coming “from past presidents, Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe and even Jesus.” (I rather doubt the latter.)
American actress, singer, model and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. (Frank Povolny/Twentieth Century Fox/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)
Hair art used to be the way people commemorated loved ones or captured souvenirs of famous people. The museum also attracted the attention of celebrities, from comedian Phyllis Diller to Ozzy and Kelly Osbourne. It’s good to see other museums taking over these unusual memories, but that’s a less fun stop along the way.
4. If you lose the Washington Post…
Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made headlines in October, and not in a good way. She should be used to that after an unfavorable term in her role covering President Joe Biden’s apparent dementia. “KJP,” as she is sometimes called, has released a new book, “Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America.” In World Series terms, she smelled like all three. Don’t wait to buy your copy.
Even the Washington Post had unkind words for it. Book critic Becca Rothfeld wrote a 190-word paragraph with six semicolons and two em dashes. She complained that KJP only abandoned the Democratic Party because it “helped lead an evasive Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race.”
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The piece called KJP a “dedicated apparatchik” and “revealingly blinkered.” She is “an artifact of an era that looks recent on paper but feels prehistoric in practice — the age of pantsuits, the word “empowerment,” the musical “Hamilton,” the cheap therapeutic entreaties to “work on yourself” and “lean into” various corporate abyss.
Rothfeld praises the author and the book, noting, “It’s incredible—and emblematic of the Democrats’ utter aesthetic and intellectual driftlessness—that someone who writes in such feel-good, thought-repellent clichés was hired to communicate to the nation from the highest stage.” I wouldn’t advise KJP to send her resume in the mail just yet.
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5. Democrats don’t know what a woman is
It takes MSNBC to complain about misogyny in a governor’s race… between two women. Yes, the bright lights of “Morning Joe,” the same show that told you that the demented Biden is “intellectually and analytically the best Biden ever,” is now whining that voting against Virginia Democrat Abigail Spanberger was sexist. A slight problem with that: the Republican candidate is Winsome Earle-Sears, who also happens to be a woman.
Co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Jonathan Lemire had an epic discussion about why female Democrats are struggling. “They’ve nominated women for president in two of the last three elections, but they’ve lost both. Some say, ‘Well, we can’t do that again. The stakes are too high.’ But that obviously falls into the same misogynistic trap,” said Lemire. To which Brzezinski replied, “Other countries have no problem choosing women.”
Earle-Sears had the last laugh until Election Day, tweeting, “Who wants to tell them?”
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