The Week In Pictures
April 6, 2024 — Steven Hayward
“Well,” I said to myself upon arriving from California for three days in New York City, “at least I won’t have to worry about earthquakes.” On the other hand, things are so weird now that walking around in Manhattan, you actually find second-hand cigarette smoke a blessed relief from the dominant second-hand pot smoke, which you pick up almost every block. But right after the “earthquake,” I spotted this on
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March 30, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Forget selling the Brooklyn Bridge to some gullible Democrat. How about a bridge in Baltimore? Here’s an idea: offer to name it the Donald Trump Bridge if Trump can get it rebuilt in six months? (With the proviso he doesn’t have to put up with any Baltimore/Buttigieg Bureaucratic nonsense.) Who doubts that he could do it? I suspect the building trades, steelworkers, etc., would work overtime at regular wages to
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March 23, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Has there ever been a greater example of media malpractice and malevolence than the way Trump’s mention of a “bloodbath” for the auto industry under Biden (analysis: completely true!) was turned into some kind of MAGA Kristallnacht? I suspect Joe Biden’s new clown shoes are an ironic tribute to this in-kind campaign contribution. Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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March 16, 2024 — Steven Hayward
We learned a useful lesson this week: you’re not in any legal jeopardy if your name is Joe Biden or Fani Willis. But just change your name to Trump and see what happens! Meanwhile, inflation is proving to be super-transitory! And Biden’s Blowout Budget offers a middle finger to middle America. At least we found out the valuable information that the media is alert to fake photos—at least when they
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March 9, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The week began with a big bang—the Supreme Court ruling 9 – 0 that Trump had to stay on the ballot, which caused liberal heads to explode and enough tears to irrigate California for a month. One of the heads (or what’s left of it) that exploded was Joe Biden’s, who popped off in a speech that left the impression he must have dipped deeply into Hunter’s stash. Headlines of
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March 2, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Don’t believe the headlines that Mitch McConnell is really stepping down. He’s going to replicate himself as an AI robot. Just keep in mind the lifespan of turtles, and you’ll know I’m right. And the crash of Google’s Gemini AI is a distraction—it’s just another CIA-Taylor Swift psy-op. Want: Headlines of the week: And finally. . . Tulsi Gabbard:
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February 24, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This is the week we got confirmation that Joe Biden is not merely a doddering, senile fool, but a bad dog owner, which is cosmically worse. Meanwhile, the FBI continues its string of comic incompetence, arresting an informant it has had on its payroll for more than a decade (paging Inspector Clouseau!), but only when it became useful to embarrass Republicans. It’s enough to make you want to put a
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February 17, 2024 — Steven Hayward
So this was the week we got The Meme to End All Memes: Travis Kelse beating up on Wilford Brimley, everyone’s favorite grandfather figure. We can Swiftly—I mean swiftly—expect it to replace Arena Explainer Guy, Distracted Boyfriend, Superhero Dilemma, Change My Mind, Drake, Angry Cat Lady, and the other staples for the Meme Generation. Senile Biden remains current, though. And file this away for future reference: Headlines of the week:
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February 10, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Seriously, how much longer can Democrats let this charade go on? Well, there’s this to be said for Slow Joe’s obvious dementia: it makes filling out the Week in Pictures an easy chore! Special bonus: Tucker Carlson has everyone upset. Just wait till he interviews Taylor Swift. Headlines of the week: And finally. . . Since it’s Super Bowl weekend, how about some cheerleaders in shotgun formation:
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February 3, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Have you heard? The Travis Kelce-Taylor Swift tie-up is some kind of deep state psy-op that will culminate in a Swift endorsement of Joe Biden at midfield at the end of a victorious Super Bowl victory in which Kelce will set new pass reception records with the help of an officiating crew drawn from suspended UNRWA staff. But this is just one giant misdirection, and I can’t believe people are
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January 27, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Why is the old Eagles song (which, like Lebowski, I hate) coming to mind just now: Never mind your name, just give us your number, hmmNever mind your face, just show us your card, hmmAnd we wanna know whose wing are you underYou better step to the right, or we can make it hard I’m stuck on the border(Whoa-ooh) all I wanted was some peace of mindDon’t you tell me
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January 20, 2024 — Steven Hayward
It’s that time of year again: the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Festivus for the global elite. Think of it at the anti-Mont Pelerin (site of the 1947 meeting that launched the movement against international socialism), and ask yourself which movement rooted in a Swiss mountain location has done the most good for the world. Cue your best shots at puffed up posers like Klaus
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January 13, 2024 — Steven Hayward
So it’s Houthi and the Blowhard now playing at the Red Sea right now. Biden sent another strongly worded letter to the Houthis, which the British thought should be accompanied with some cruise missiles and drone strikes. Biden is likely thinking, “Golly, I didn’t know we could do that! I mean, my Defense Secretary never told me! Actually he doesn’t tell me much of anything.” Meanwhile, in the Annals of
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January 6, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Well, this new year is starting off much better than expected. It’s not often that a schadenfreudey moment like the self-immolation of Harvard’s Claudine Gay lasts an entire month, so by all means let’s revel in it for another week. Let it roll over us like hot chocolate syrup on a vanilla ice-cream sundae. (I’m sure some ninny somewhere will think this imagery racist, unless they stop and think about
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December 30, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Another year, another set of ignored new year’s resolutions. But we’re ready to ring in the new year with expectations for more of the last year—Biden bumbling, Kamala cackling, Hunter huffing, Trump trumping, Ukraine underperforming, the media mediating, etc. We resume with Colorado’s threat to democracy, which spread to the mean streets of Maine this week. Happy new year everybody! Headlines of the week: And finally. . .
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December 23, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Gay sex in the Senate, Gay plagiarism at Harvard—no wonder the left wanted to get out ahead of things by promoting the “don’t say gay” slogan last year. I’m awaiting a re-write of Nietzsche’s Gay Science to offer up a field theory of how the left’s identitarianism is hitting the wall harder than an EV-driving coyote chasing after a white supremacist road-runner who just filled up his jalopy with gasoline.
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December 16, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Next up, we’re going to be told that plagiarism is a matter of context, right? (Though I am tempted to go with “Claudine Gay is a plagiarist is My Truth.”) Actually the entire monotonous campus left is one big plagiarism racket, since all the ideas, and much of the vocabulary, are identical. This is why I call every invocation of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” the modern academic Nicene Creed (“We
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