Now You See It…

Art Print: LIFE VJ Day Soldier Kissing girl, 12x9in.

It was only taboo for a few hours.

Millions and millions of people have seen this famous* photo of the wild celebration of victory–of survival!–in World War II.

Well, some pinhead pencil-pusher, somewhere in the bowels of the bureaucracy, recently issued a memo ordering the photo of the sailor kissing the girl banned because it’s “non-consensual sexual harassment” or something (https://apnews.com/article/times-square-kiss-photo-veterans-affairs-memo-b24d5dba6930be867e9ac1be6dff16e5).

This went viral, millions of views on social media. Government spokeswoman has to say the memo was “unauthorized,” The Lyin’ Biden Administration hasn’t banned the photo, that was just some nimrod overstepping his bounds…

But why was this story so easy to believe, for so many people?

Are you kiddin’? The wokies are always tampering with history! Things that didn’t happen, happened, things that did happen, didn’t, and they make it all up as they go along, depending on the political needs of the moment. We have gotten used to being lied to! We are expected to believe things that most definitely are not so.

So yes, at the drop of the hat they’d ban that photo–which in fact some wokie in the Veterans Administration tried to do.

Truth itself is their prey.

*(Sorry, I don’t use the word “iconic.” For that you have to go everywhere else.)

‘The Food Fight Over Richard III’ (My Newswithviews Column, Feb. 8)

Richard III, Act 5, Scene IV: A horse! A horse! My kingdom ...

“A wheelchair! A wheelchair! My kingdom for a wheelchair!”

History is supposed to teach us the difference between wisdom and folly, progress and disaster, etc., etc. But it can’t do that unless it’s true history; and that’s getting harder and harder to come by.

How, for instance, is any truth to struggle out of … this?

The Food Fight Over Richard III

And if it weren’t enough to mangle history and jam it full of lies, the Wokies are also committed to erasing it. That’s why they tear down statues. They don’t mind arguments over, say, Christopher Columbus; but they’d like it even better if us plebs didn’t know Columbus had ever existed. Better still: “America was discovered by a disabled Woman of Color and a crew of LGBTQ poets and philosophers…”

But let me permanently disqualify myself from being Woke; these few little words will do it:

Truth is better than lies.