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It’s time to say goodbye to Sean Spicer, the human meme of the Trump White House – Washington Post

Posted: July 22, 2017 at 7:43 am

The transformation of Sean Spicer from mere press secretary to human meme began the day after Trump became president. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period both in person and around the globe, Spicer said in a forceful statement to reporters on Jan. 21. He was sent out to dispute reports about the size of the crowd on Inauguration Day, but several of his key facts were wrong, and #spicerfacts became a Twitter meme. The joke was, #Spicerfacts were not, strictly speaking, facts.

[Spicer resigns as White House press secretary, Scaramucci to be communications director]

Spicer resigned as White House spokesmanon Friday, afterAnthony Scaramucci was appointed White House communications director. With Spicersresignation, its also time to say goodbye to the semi-fictional character the Internet created out of Spicer.

Spicer, the human meme, was at times the embodiment ofthe Trump administrations combativeness withthe mainstream media hence the lasting power of #spicerfacts. At other times, he was kind of a sequel to the character the Internet created of Jeb! please clap Bush a sad figure whose dreams were crushed by the surprise rise of Trump.

A few weeks ago, Funny or Die re-cut Sarah McLachlans famous ASPCA commercial to plead for help for Spicer. Being the White House press secretary was Sean Spicers dream, the parody says. He will have nowhere to go and no one to turn to. Sean Spicer needs your help.

The memes of Spicer hiding in or, more precisely among the bushes caught the Internets imagination so fully in May that someone made real cutouts of an image of Spicers headto place in real bushes. The idea went viral.Lisa Kadonaga, the creator of the cutouts, speculated in interviews that the meme spread in part because people feltkind of bad for the press secretary:

I think it really struck a chord with people realizing, Gee, that could be me up there, she said to a Canadian media outlet. Later, she added, I do feel sorry for the guy.

The memed version of Spicers short tenure as press secretary is often a bit more fan fiction than documentation, but there were several real-world moments that helped to fuel it. There was, of course, the bushes incident. But the most heartbreaking one was probably when Trump met Pope Francis: Spicer, a Catholic,wasnt invited to the meeting. Reporters publicly expressed sympathy:

When asked about the absence, a source close to the White House said the following to CNN: Wow. Thats all he wanted.

The Spicer meme character was always chaotic, a weird juxtaposition how Spicer did his job while defending the administrations statements and policies, and of the mans more lighthearted idiosyncrasies. Just days after his tense address to the media about the inauguration crowd size, a side story emerged about his longtime feud with Dippin Dots, the ice cream-like product. There was also the mystery of some truly strange tweets from his @PressSec account during his first week on the job (many speculated that perhaps Spicer had inadvertently tweeted his password).

But it was Melissa McCarthys portrayal of Spicer on Saturday Night Live that best captured the mix of absurdity and sympathy of the Internets vision for him. McCarthy played Spicer as an ineloquent bully, but onethe audience still sort of rooted for. When Spicer returnedto the show in May, this was in full effect.

But what if hes lying to you? a reporter asks McCarthys Spicer in the sketch.

He wouldnt do that; hes my friend, Spicer replies.

If hes your friend, why does he make you come out here and humiliate yourself every day? another reporter asks.

Spicer then abruptly leaves the news conference and heads to New York to ask the president, Have you ever told me to say things that arent true? Please watch, if you havent:

Upon news of Spicers resignation Friday morning, the Internet filled up with tributes to the character theyd created out of the mans six months as White House press secretary.

Well miss you, Super Deluxe tweeted Friday, after changing their Twitter name to Spicer Deluxe in tribute. The outlet known for its political satire then published a supercut of Spicer stuttering at the White House lectern.

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A testament to the human impulse to help one another – Washington Post

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I was brought to tears by the story of the human chain that savedswimmers who were perilously close to drowning off a Florida beach [Florida beachgoers form a human chain to save 10 swept off by riptide, Politics & the Nation, July 12]. Dozens of beachgoers some of whom couldnt swim responded to the alarm, left their complacency behind and joined hands in a rescue effort, endangering their own lives in the process. This remarkable and spontaneous show of unity, this act of courage and compassion by strangers, left me in awe.

How badly is such a story needed now, when the daily headlines are filled with the hatred and division consuming our nation. Ill bet that human chain consisted of both Democrats and Republicans, people of different races, religions and sexual orientations. When disaster is at hand, these differences are utterly irrelevant; the human impulse to help one another is as strong as any force of nature. We should all learn from their extraordinary spirit of cooperation.

Rebecca Frank, Oakton

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Spokane Human Rights Commission will apologize to sheriff’s office for comments on Facebook – The Spokesman-Review

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UPDATED: Fri., July 21, 2017, 10:50 p.m.

After Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich Commissioned seven new deputies, this picture was posted on the sheriffs office Facebook page. From left to right the new deputies are Jeffrey Bailey, Matthew Peterson, Benjamin Ehlers, Jessica Baken, Shawn Lundgren, Collin Hayett and Scott McKenney (Spokane County Sheriffs Office Facebook page)

When the vice chairwoman of the Spokane Human Rights Commission, Ashley Torres, shared a post announcing the swearing-in of seven new Spokane County Sheriffs Office deputies on Facebook, it wasnt with a congratulatory message.

So much for diversifying our police force Torres wrote.

Torres didnt step in when another commenter wrote the group of deputies looked white-washed and that the woman in the picture was put out front so she wouldnt be missed.

Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said he was disappointed by the post, especially since it came from a member of the Human Rights Commission, and that it sent a terrible message to the seven new deputies.

Welcome to Spokane and the first day of your new job, Knezovich said Thursday. You already have part of the community against you.

Knezovich, whose agency, like many other law enforcement agencies in the country, is struggling to fill open positions, demanded an apology.

Torres said she was just stating a fact that seven more white people had been hired.

I dont feel like the hiring process is working, Torres said. There are barriers to hiring minorities and those barriers need to be addressed.

Torres said she didnt immediately understand the white-washed comment as being racist.

She added that the post was not directed at the people in the photo, and that she did not intend to support sexist comments about the female deputy.

I understand how it could have been misconstrued, Torres said. But I have issues with the disparity within the sheriffs department, and Im not going to back away from that.

Knezovich said that pointing out there is a disparity issue in his agency is a Captain Obvious moment.

How about helping with a solution? Knezovich said. We reach out to every aspect of humanity we can think of when we hire.

Human Rights Commission Chairman John Lemus said the commission will apologize to Knezovich and the new deputies at its meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Ashley and I are not racists, Lemus said. Deputies have human rights, too, and this is never anything that could have happened on the commissions page.

Lemus, whos running for mayor of Spokane, also said hed issue a warning to commissioners on Tuesday.

We are appointed by the mayor and we are public officials, Lemus said. We have to think about what we are posting on social media and how its perceived by the community.

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New ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Clips Show Off Beautiful, Retro-Futurist Tech (Including a New Phaser) – Outer Places

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A lot of noise has been made by creative decision-makers involved withStar Trek Discovery concerning the show's very impressive production quality. Apparently it's the design of props and costumes that caused significant delays to the show's release this fall.

We don't just have to take their word for it anymoretheDiscovery Twitter account has been sharing small glimpses at the heavily redesigned technology of the show, which draws inspiration from the original Gene Roddenberry Star Trek series, but has been updated to make it look a little more impressive.

Here we have a Star Fleet officer's badge, which will probably not serve as a communicator as it does in later periods in the timelinecontinuity is important here, as in the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies.

Instead, the classic flip-top communicator, which inspired real life cell phones, will return. This time, though, it sports a neat little computer display that makes it look at least a little more modern, if not hugely futuristic. There's something of a CASIO watch design to its circular screen and illuminated display, which can't be an accident.

Finally, there's the new phaser, which, if anything, resembles a very old movie camera from the early days of film. One thing's for certain, it's very pretty.

If there's a theme to these props, it's the idea of futuristic technology hearkening back to the old daysthis continues the theme of the very retro-looking transporters that we've already seen on board the Discovery. That is, except for this laser rifle, which looks like something out of a SWAT kit:

The solution, then, is to deliberately bake vintage designs into these items. Discovery is almost claiming that in the far-flung future, humanity prefers something that looks older and traditional because it makes space travel feel less sterile. It's a smart design choice, as it definitely reflects modern society, with our obsession with retro fashion, vinyl record players, and Instagram filters that make photos look worse. Our current culture reacts to Star Trek-style advancements in technology by yearning for our simpler past, and it seems that Discovery's props are a reflection of this.

Star Trek Discoverypremieres on CBS onSeptember 24th, 2017.

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New York Neo-Futurists to Offer ‘Fundamentals’ Workshop This Summer – Broadway World

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The award-winning New York Neo-Futurists will share a little of their well earned wisdom this summer when they offer the workshop, Level One: Function and Fundamentals. The workshop that has served as a stepping stone to fifteen would-be Neo-Futurists is a twelve hour workshop that stretches over three Saturdays beginning July 22nd and wrapping up August 5th, all taking place at Playwrights Rehearsal Studios.

Workshop participants will be taught the function and fundamentals of what it means to create art in the Neo-Futurist aesthetic: performing as your most natural self, dismantling the fourth wall, creating task-based theatre, and accessing creative inspiration to eliminate writer's block. By the end of this workshop, participants will have written, performed and workshopped both individually and collectively written short plays that can be taken into the world in whichever way they see fit.

The instructors for this Level One: Function and Fundamentals workshop will be Neo-Futurists Dan McCoy and Connor Sampson. McCoy, a member of the NY Neo-Futurists since 2009 is a performer and playwright who holds an MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College and whose work has been produced or developed recently at Theaterlab, Primary Stages, Project Y Theatre and IATI Theatre. Sampson is a two-time national champion of performance poetry, the 2016 inaugural recipient of the Jeffrey Melnick New Playwright Award (Primary Stages) and has been a Neo since 2014. Connor also holds a BFA with honors in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

If you've found yourself in the Kraine Theater at 10:30 on a Friday or Saturday night, witnessed the Neo-Futurists delivering their barrage of short plays, and said to yourself "I can do that" or "I could never do that," then this workshop is for you. Creative individuals at all levels of experience are encouraged to enroll for a mere $300.

The New York Neo-Futurists are a collective of wildly productive writer-director-performers that create theater that is fusion of sport, poetry and living-newspaper; non-illusory, interactive performance that conveys experiences and ideas as directly and honestly as possible; immediate, irreproducible events at affordable prices. Since opening in Brooklyn in 2004 the New York Neo-Futurists have premiered roughly 4,500 plays and have become a downtown New York institution. In addition to performing The Infinite Wrench fifty weeks a year and producing Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind from 2004 until 2016, the New York Neo-Futurists have been a stalwart presence in the Off-Off Broadway community, having won numerous Innovative Theatre Awards and Drama Desk Nominations.

IF YOU GO: New York Neo-Futurists What: Level One Workshop: Function and Fundamentals Where: Playwrights Rehearsal Studios, 440 Lafayette Street #4, New York, NY 10003 When: July 22nd, July 29th & August 5th from 1pm-5pm. How: nynf.org or 866-811-4111 Cost: $300 ($50 deposit to reserve your spot).

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Jesus Shrugged | The American Conservative – The American Conservative

Posted: July 21, 2017 at 12:42 pm

Weve all heard of the idea of a general workers strike. In her tome Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand posed a provocative question. What if, in response to an increasingly overbearing regulatory state, the entrepreneurs of America decided to go on strike?

The resulting 1000 pages, if you can get through them, constitute one of the most creative, if overwrought, dystopias ever envisioned. Societys producers quietly disappear, enclosed in their own hidden capitalist utopia, while innovation grinds to a halt, intellectual property languishes, and overconfident, arrogant bureaucrats run world-class factories into the ground. When alls said and done, all that was required to liberate Americas unappreciated geniuses and creators was for them to walk away and leave society to pick up the pieces.

American Christians may find themselves in a position closer to John Galt than to Saint Benedict, with apologies to Rod Dreher.Many of the services Americans take for granted are provided by churches and Christian organizations. It is not hyperbolic to say that core areas of American life would languish or collapse without the contributions of Christian people and organizations. These enormous social contributions are frequently underappreciated, but would certainly be missed.

Perhaps the most important is health care. John Stonestreet, president of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, wrote in an article titled No Christianity, No Hospitals: Dont Take Christian Contributions for Granted:

One in six hospital beds in our country is located in a Catholic hospital. In at least thirty communities, the Catholic hospital is the only hospital in a 35-mile radius. This doesnt even take into account hospitals run by other Christian bodies such as Baptists, Methodists, and especially Seventh-Day Adventists.

Catholic hospitals are the largest single category within non-profit hospitals, which themselves account for about half of all hospitals.

Christians also run thousands of private schools that often meet or exceed the quality of public schools; a full 70 percent of all private schools are either Catholic or affiliated with another religion, generally some form of Protestantism (a much smaller percentage of these are Jewish or run by a non-Abrahamic religion).

In addition to health care and education, it is churches which minister to the neediest and most marginalized members of society. Matthew Robare reported in these pages:

According to the nonprofit Partners for Sacred Places, churches and religious buildings of all faiths continue to have an economic impact on their neighborhoods. Their research found that almost all have some sort of community-service programs, and most have at least four running concurrently. The same study estimated that in Philadelphia alone religious congregations contribute over $100 million to their community annuallyabout $144,000 per congregation. Most of that comes from measuring volunteer time as though it were paid labor, but they also provide space, staff, and direct financial support to neighborhood services. Sixty percent of churches surveyed had food pantries, and nearly as many hosted music performances and clothing donations. Over 40 percent had soup kitchens.

Churches also offer meals for the homebound, place children with foster parents, offer marriage counseling, run crisis pregnancy centers, and perform countless other ministries and social and cultural activities. And yet bureaucrats heap nothing but contempt or suspicion on orthodox Christians, and policymakers increasingly do nothing but circumscribe their rights in the public square. The reward for managing more healthcare than could ever be provided by the state? Catholic nuns compelled to provide artificial birth control. The reward for taking some weight off the broken foster care system? Being compelled to place children in same-sex households.

The utility and morality of orthodox Christian social beliefs can be debated. But according to Christian teaching, it is licit, perhaps even mandatory, to withdraw and walk awayshake the dust off your feetrather than violate ones conscience or become corrupted by the world.

At a lecture once in my college Catholic center, our priest said that if laws required Catholic agencies to place children in same-sex households, the church should suspend its adoption placements entirely. What about the children who wont get placed in homes, I asked? Can the church sacrifice real people for its own survival? Of course it can, he explained; it is more important to preserve the integrity of the church for the future, because it is the churchs moral and spiritual integrity which inspires it to do social good in the first place. That argument may not be watertight, but it is one Christians must grapple with.

Orthodox Christians in America have gotten into the habit of bemoaning their inexorably shrinking political power and the rising hostility to religious freedom. But they actually possess enormous political power: the ability to grind to a halt the health care, educational, and social services infrastructure of the United States. Will they use it?

Addison Del Mastro is Assistant Editor for The American Conservative.

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First trailer for Charlie Sheen’s ‘9/11’ movie is … well, you decide – Los Angeles Times

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July 20, 2017, 2:49 p.m.

The curious story of the movie 9/11 has gotten a little more clarity. When a promotional poster first appeared earlier this month it raised more than a few eyebrows for more than a few reasons. A drama about the collapse of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, starring Charlie Sheen?

A Japanese trailer for the movie has now appeared online, providing the first glimpses of the movie. Directed and co-written by Martin Guigui, the movie is based on Patrick Carsons fact-based play Elevator and also stars Whoopi Goldberg, Gina Gershon, Luiz Guzman, Wood Harris and Jacqueline Bisset.

In the trailer, Sheen and Gershon are a married couple on the brink of divorce. They are in an elevator at the WTC when the towers are attacked and find themselves stuck with three strangers. As they figure out what is really happening, they attempt to escape. At one point, after seeming to have already helped Gershon out of the elevator car, Sheen says, The building is coming down.

Aside from the fact that seeing troubled star Sheen in any movie at all is notable at this point, his appearance in a movie specifically about 9/11 is of particular interest. Sheen has spoken often about the attacks and voiced doubts about the official version of those events.

Sheen, as a guest on the radio show of right-wing pundit Alex Jones in 2006,said, "It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airlines and hitting 75% of their targets -- that feels like a conspiracy theory."

9/11 is scheduled for a U.S. theatrical release on Sept. 8 via Atlas Distribution Co., best known for putting out the three-part screen adaptation of Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged.

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Dist. 16 election: Libertarian Jason Dubrow, in his own words – The Union Leader

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By JASON DUBROW July 20. 2017 9:38PM Libertarian candidate Jason Dubrow takes a question during an interview at the New Hampshire Union Leader on June 28, 2017.(DAVID LANE/UNION LEADER) I am Jason Dubrow, a computer engineer living in Dunbarton with my wife, Rebecca, and two children Cassiopeia (7), and Callisto (15 months). Rebecca and I maintain a small farm with chickens, gardens, and a number of beehives. We installed solar panels many years ago to offset our carbon footprint.

New Hampshire has the fifth highest electric rate in the country, the highest in New England. Neighboring states with high electric subsidies, yield higher wholesale rates, in addition to higher property taxes on power generation plants are major culprits for our high electricity costs. I will address high property taxes, which are passed on to the rate payer to lower electric rates. The high cost of electricity is a deterrent to bring new businesses from out of state. If this does not change, our economic growth will stagnate.

Every child should have access to a diverse network of educational opportunities to meet the demands of the 21st century. We continue to educate our children with a one size fits all system. Without a competitive, diverse system of education, our children are left behind. We need more opportunities for our children in New Hampshire regardless of their socioeconomic class to meet the 21st century needs and challenges they face. I will work to open the doors to ensure all children, especially to ensure low income, are not limited to a single option for their education.

Concord uses the same tried and failed methods of solving the drug crisis. We are not winning this battle. We need to follow Portugals lead and decriminalize all drugs. I will work to ensure money targeted for rehabilitation of drug addicts is used for that purpose rather than failed policies such as policing or life support for addicts.

Our state needs new ideas, not a swinging pendulum of the old tired two-party system. And we wonder why government is unable to solve real problems? The Libertarian Party has a wide range of new ideas that will end the duopoly in Concord and force a tripartisan, innovative solution to the problems that face our state. I will work to ensure we keep New Hampshire TRI-partisanship alive with new ideas.

As John Adams once said, Government is instituted for the common good: for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people. And not to profit.

Yours in liberty.

Jason Dubrow of Dunbarton is the Libertarian nominee for state Senate District 16.

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Author’s Claim That Calhoun Was Major Inspiration for Nobel-Winning Libertarian Is Absurd – The Chronicle of Higher Education (blog)

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July 20, 2017

To the Editor:

Democracy in Chains author Nancy MacLean misrepresents my criticism of her connecting the work of my late colleague James Buchanan to that of John C. Calhoun (Nancy MacLean Responds to Her Critics, The Chronicle Review, July 19). My criticism is not that she drew a parallel between Buchanans political economy and that of John C. Calhoun. Instead, my criticism as I say plainly in the essay linked in your report is of her claim that the core ideas of Buchanan (and of others scholars who work in Buchanans tradition) come from John C. Calhoun. Had MacLean merely drawn a parallel between Buchanans efforts to study and compare different constitutional rules and Calhouns similar efforts, Id have raised no protest. But by asserting in her interview with the New Republic that Buchanans ideas trace back to John C. Calhoun andin her book describing Calhoun as the intellectual lodestar of Buchanan and others who work in the classical-liberal tradition she is demonstrably mistaken.

First, Buchanan never mentions Calhoun in any of his vast writings. Second, in an appendix to The Calculus of Consent his most famous book (co-authored with Gordon Tullock) Buchanan not only explicitly identifies several political thinkers as inspiration (nearly all of whom, by the way, pre-date Calhoun), he also explains in detail how their works influenced his own; these explicitly identified precursors to Buchanans political thought include Johannes Althusius, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Wilhelm von Humboldt, James Madison, and Baruch Spinoza. Again, they do not include Calhoun.

Somehow overlooking Buchanans own very clear mention of the thinkers whose ideas he found to be especially influential, MacLean contrary to all available evidence claimed in her book and in her interview that the major inspiration for Buchanans ideas is Calhoun. That claim is not only unsubstantiated, it is preposterous.

Donald J. Boudreaux Professor of Economics and Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism at the Mercatus Center George Mason University Fairfax, Va.

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POINT OF VIEW: Promoting civility, practicing the Golden Rule daily – Palm Beach Post

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Too often, all the American people see of Congress is hyperpartisan bickering on cable TV. What dont they see when the cameras are turned off? Many of us are friends. The policy disputes? They arent personal, even when passionate.

We are passionate because we all love our country. We want to serve the people who sent us to Washington to get things done for the American people. And we believe strongly in what we stand for. But we can disagree without being disagreeable. And the way we carry ourselves in our public debates is how we are represented to the American people no matter how cordial we are behind closed doors.

We can, and must, do better.

Weber Shandwick and Powell Tate, in partnership with KRC Research, recently released a report on the state of civility in America. It found that incivility has reached crisis levels in our country.

These findings, sadly, are not surprising. Particularly disappointing was that a majority of Americans believe incivility in our politics encourages general incivility in society, which deters citizens from engaging in public service. Incivility can lead to intimidation, threats, harassment, cyberbullying, discrimination and violence. In the wake of the attack on our fellow members of Congress at a baseball game practice of all places, the need for action could not be more urgent.

To try to disrupt this troubling trend, we have put forward bipartisan legislation, H.R. 400, creating a National Day of Civility. Its one small way to give this issue greater attention and spark greater awareness in communities across the country, and in Washington. The bill has overwhelming bipartisan support, introduced with the backing of nearly every member of our 50-plus person freshman class. As public officials, we have a responsibility to lead by example.

Matthew 7:12 reads: In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you. Its the Golden Rule. In our civil discourse, we must strive to disagree without being disagreeable and practice the Golden Rule every day. We look forward to growing support for our effort to recognize July 12 as the National Day of Civility.

Words matter. How we treat each other matters. Lets foster more civility in public discourse Congress is a great place to start.

CHARLIE CRIST AND MIKE JOHNSON, WASHINGTON

Editors note: Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist now represents the states 13th District, and Mike Johnson represents Louisianas 4th District, in the U.S. House of Representatives. Crist is a Democrat, and Johnson is a Republican. This commentary first appeared in The Hill.

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