Friday Friends and Flags

Hot Air reports on the dismantling of the Newseum in Washington. This was the media's gigantic monument to itself. Admission was $24.95. Folks, the Air and Space Museum is free and it has fighter planes and rocket ships. This blog admits, seeing the Newseum close down arouses us, sexually. Learn to Code, bitches.

A long piece in The Jerusalem Post about the ongoing and never-ending political machinations in Israel. The author argues that a 5th election is the least-worst option. This is about way more than right and left. It's not just that right and left can't agree (there really is no left, anymore), it's that right can't agree. Heh, then there's the secular-right (like Avigdor Liberman) and the religious-right. One of the problems is that Israel has right parties that want a two-state solution, right parties that want to drive the Gazans into the sea, right parties that want to maintain towns in Judea/Samaria, right parties that would withdraw behind the West Bank wall. 

Meanwhile The Times of Israel reports on post-rioting arrests: The Israel Police said Monday that over 1,550 people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the violent clashes between Jews and Arabs earlier this month. The sweeping operation, involving thousands of police and Border Police officers, arrested 85 suspects on Monday, among them 38 who are suspected of participating in rioting in East Jerusalem. So far 150 indictments have been filed, police said in a statement.' They've also arrested some Jews. We say arrest more Jews. The Israelis need to figure out this Arab anger problem. No, we're not blaming the victim. But we will put some blame on Bibi. In a few of the past elections he ran against the Arabs, literally. 

The Friends reunion aired last night. We didn't see it. Younger reader(s) if you want a window into the 90's there it is. Fun, frivolous, nihilistic. All taking place in a revived New York City. In the 70's Friends would have taken place in LA. As to the ultimate question, are you kidding me? Rachel.  Heh, this blog remembers when Courtney Cox was Alex P. Keaton's girlfriend. 

Friends' best character was Chandler Bing. He's just a normal 100 IQ Gen-X guy. Not a jock, not a nerd, just an everyman working a data entry job because that's what he found after college. In one episode he's offered a promotion and quits. Friends is his story. We related.

Alright now, we got 76's farming chapter straightened out more or less. It manages to talk about farming, wrap up the Korean War, and intro Reagan being tapped to rebuild Hollywood. Matt scenes are now finished through this chapter. At the end of May The Great Salvation of 1976 stands at 70,000 words.

Below, your Friday Flag:

The Media is Decadent and Depraved and Dying

Last week the media tried to destroy a teenager for wearing a MAGA hat and smirking.

Also last week Huffpo, Gannet and Buzzfeed laid off a combined 1,000 staffers.

But wait, it gets better:

Johns Hopkins University is acquiring the building that houses the Newseum in Washington, D.C., where it plans to consolidate its presence in the nation’s capital, provide more opportunities for students and better inform policymakers, officials announced Friday...

...The sale will bring about the eventual closure of the Newseum at its current location. Dedicated to increasing public understanding of the role of the free press, the decade-old museum has struggled to stay afloat financially. It will remain open through the end of the year, the Freedom Forum said in a statement.

Read Andrew Ferguson's piece on the Newseum here. 

God, it's glorious.

It's like Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the media.

Mischievous right wingers have been telling these suddenly unemployed hipster-Williamsburg douchebags to learn to code. This was Obama's response to out of work coal miners. To which we have added:

Also interested in anyone who can dance. $50 per

— William Stroock (@WStroock) January 26, 2019

The Media is Decadent and Depraved

The Washington Post...

[Speaking of Decadent and depraved-Ed]

Ayhoo, the Washington Post tells us that the media's monument to itself is in deep do-do:

Two months shy of its 10th anniversary in a glass-and-steel showpiece on Washington’s most prestigious thoroughfare, executives at the struggling Newseum will meet Thursday with a top real estate firm to explore options that include selling their building or moving to another location.

Here's a doozy:

The survival of the Newseum — which charges one of the city’s highest museum entrance fees at up to almost $25 per person — has long been in doubt as it has sought to compete for visitors and donors in a capital awash in free cultural institutions. In 2016, the museum operated at a substantial loss, spending $8.2 million more than the $55.7 million in revenue it generated, according to previously unreported tax documents. That was more than triple the shortfall from the previous year. The museum has posted an annual deficit every year since it opened in its current location, tax records show.

Twenty-five dollars.

[America?-Ed]

I suspect they'll take rubles....commie bastards.

Anyhoo, twenty-five freakin' dollars to watch a bunch of media-types tell you how wonderful they are when you can go to the Air and Space Museum and see rocket ships and fighter jets....for free!

The article makes reference to the Newseum's old building across the river in Rosslyn. We went to an event there in 1999. The facility was ok, we guess. Honestly we most remember the men's room, which had famous newspaper typos over each urinal. Who let the headline writers from the New York Post on the board?

Twenty-five dollars to look at tape of Walter Cronkite (who? askes everyone under 45.)

Oh media, don't ever change.

Swiped from the website

Riveting