Is This Going To Make It Harder For Me To Date?

From the Scottish Sun:

Wannabe Scots actor found guilty of rape for secretly not using condom during sex in ‘stealthing’ conviction first

AN aspiring actor has become the first man in Scotland to be convicted of rape for secretly not using a condom during sex.

The historic case marks the first prosecution in Scotland of “stealthing” – removing or not using a condom during sex without a partner’s knowledge.

Campaigners have hailed the verdict as a major “landmark” in tackling the under-reported crime.

Luke Ford, 33, was found guilty on Friday of 18 charges of abusing seven female partners, including raping five of them and the attempted rape of another.

A trial at the High Court in Glasgow heard Ford terrorised the women over a 12-year period targeting them on dating apps before mounting a campaign of abuse.

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Feeling Strong

I told a bachelor friend that he looks like he’s feeling strong.

He replied, “Physically, but that masks a weakness. You and I know it’s the Modern Orthodox man supporting five kids who is strong. I’m just using fitness and whatever talent and packaging I have to help sell myself to have fun and to impress serious people. Men respect fitness. So it helps to rebuild your career.”

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Putting The Con In Conservative (5-14-23)

01:00 WSJ: Before His Killing, Tech Executive Bob Lee Led an Underground Life of Sex and Drugs
12:30 Hispanic Nazis
15:00 Why Are Right-Wing Radio Hosts Still Being Such Jerks About COVID?
32:00 2000 Mules REVIEW – A Dramatic but EMPTY Film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Haq0ak0ZU
51:00 Elliott Blatt joins
55:00 NPR funding

01:00 Living by Andrew Huberman
03:00 Analyzing CNN Townhall with Donald Trump
07:00 The Long Con in Conservatism, https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con
29:00 Claire Khaw’s one visit to an Orthodox shul
34:00 Right-wing death squads
37:30 The Flight 93 Election
38:50 The Proud Boys
41:30 The TRS-Proud Boys crossover
48:00 You can’t joke about that
53:00 Trump Townhall analysis
58:00 Feeling like we’re back in 2016
1:12:00 Curtis Yarvin & Vlad Davidzon | Should US help Ukraine?
1:35:00 WSJ: Get ready with me Tiktok

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The Lifestyle

Chuck Johnson wrote April 5 about Bob Lee’s murder: “Lee liked drugs. Lee bought drugs. Lee also liked orgies.”

Johnson was way ahead of the curve on this story.

May 14, 2023, the Wall Street Journal catches up:

Before His Killing, Tech Executive Bob Lee Led an Underground Life of Sex and Drugs

After the Cash App founder died in a stabbing, some were quick to blame San Francisco’s street violence. The truth was more shocking.

SAN FRANCISCO—In certain wealthy tech circles it is known as “The Lifestyle,” an underground party scene featuring recreational drug use and casual sex…

On the afternoon of April 3, a Monday, the partying took a dark turn. According to San Francisco prosecutors, Ms. Momeni’s older brother confronted Mr. Lee about her. Was she taking drugs or doing anything inappropriate, he wanted to know. Hours later the brother, Nima Momeni, stabbed Mr. Lee with a kitchen knife and left him to bleed out in the street, prosecutors alleged. Mr. Momeni, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, is being held without bail…

Libertine though it might seem, the party scene is governed by an unwritten code of conduct, said Devon Meyers, a friend of Mr. Lee who saw him a few days before he died. “There is still an understanding of consent and boundaries,” he said, adding that, if someone gets drunk and handsy, “they get excommunicated very quickly.”

…Mr. Momeni, the accused killer, was known to use drugs himself but wasn’t seen as part of the elite crowd… Acquaintances describe him as aloof and introverted, unlike his wealthy and glamorous sister, and prone to brood on the sidelines at parties….

Friends of Mr. Lee said he told them that he was casually sleeping with Ms. Momeni, 37. Before that, about three years ago, Mr. Lee, 43, was together with a woman that Mr. Momeni, 38, also had dated…

Mr. Lee… took ecstasy, ketamine, cocaine and attended all-night raves all around the world…

Once, a club offered to admit people for only $5 instead of $20 if they went in with no pants. Mr. Lee obliged…

Ms. Kerati, who met Mr. Lee at a private party in Acapulco, said that Mr. Lee had several girlfriends during that time and other women he was sleeping with, but that he was always respectful toward them….

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Conservatism: A Rediscovery

Samuel Goldman writes:

* Yoram Hazony’s Conservatism: A Rediscovery is a more personal book than its title suggests. As recounted in the fourth section, it tells the story of a sensitive young man who found in traditional religion, scholarly work, and nationalist politics a purpose for his life. Along the way, he married a loving wife, moved to a different land, and sired a goodly brood of children and grandchildren who bring him the comfort of a life well-lived already in middle-age. It is a beautiful story and a worthy example for the younger audience Hazony hopes to reach.

These circumstances are by no means discrediting. Every book is, to some extent, an autobiography of its writer, and Hazony deserves credit for telling his readers explicitly who he is and where he comes from. In addition to their honesty, these statements are consistent with Hazony’s epistemology, which emphasizes the limitation of any human perspective.

* Despite his admiration for the Anglo-American past, the core of Hazony’s conservatism is a form of Zionism built around an interpretation of the Hebrew Bible as the primary guide to modern politics. He even quotes with apparent approval a private remark by Irving Kristol that only Christians should be able to vote in a Christian nation on the same principle that only Jews should be allowed to vote in Israel.

* I would not mention the personal circumstances that produced this book if Hazony did not introduce them himself. But it is hard to resist the feeling that there is something odd about Americans, whether Christians or Jews, taking lessons from a writer who decided that America is not only the wrong place for him and his posterity but has also been on the wrong track for the majority of its past. The result here is difficult to reconcile with Hazony’s own defense of nationalism, which insists that different countries have different histories, resources, and needs, which cannot be reduced to broad ideological categories. Conservatism: A Rediscovery is a contribution to the rediscovery of certain forgotten American resources and prospects, but the search cannot stop there.

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