DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Professor Accused of Racism for Asking His Student to Try Harder.
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October 28, 2018
WHY, INDEED? Why Is CBD Oil Suddenly Everywhere? “Right now, CBD is the chemical equivalent to Bitcoin in 2016. . . It’s hot, everywhere and yet almost nobody understands it.”
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Cancellation of ‘Boba Fett’ Movie Reveals a Star Wars Franchise in Serious Trouble.
It’s the Lady Ghostbusters syndrome of a studio and its marketing platform of left-leaning film “critics” (read: industry boosters) attacking male fans all over again. To borrow a line from another franchise that also involved George Lucas and Harrison Ford, Kathleen Kennedy chose…poorly.
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Rage Makes You Stupid.
But it’s Kevin D. Williamson, so read the whole thing.
SECRET HISTORY: These Are The Forgotten Sex Workers Of The First World War Who Played An Important Role In Soldiers’ Lives.
“It’s a much deeper thing than we give it credit for. The men thought they were likely to die the next day, the thought you’re never going to have someone touch you nicely again before you die, it must be horrendous.
“Before one of the major offensives, where 80% of men were expected to die, 300 men were lined up outside this one brothel.”
Many of the men, she said, were virgins, who wanted to experience having sex before they died.
And many of them did die. This is known as “male privilege.”
HAD TO BE A MILLENNIAL: NYT’s take on jazz musicians so damn racist they deleted it.
So the Soviet Union was a swinging hotbed of sex, Bill Ayers is a swell guy, Trump should be assassinated, and jazz until recently was the sole province of whites — it’s quite an interesting worldview inside the Times’ Saved by the Bell-style offices.
DID ANTI-SEMITIC BDS RHETORIC TRIGGER THE SYNAGOGUE SHOOTER? “We’ve seen this meme applied liberally to explanations for what encouraged Cesar Sayoc to send bombs to all those Democrats. His lawyer even blames Trump for his client’s impulse-control problem. Should Trump be blamed for the synagogue massacre also? Many on the left are trying to make the connection, despite the fact that the shooter was virulently anti-Trump. But if Trump is to blame for the attempted bombings, yesterday’s anti-Semitic attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh could just as easily be blamed on the vicious anti-Jewish rhetoric coming from the left.”
Related: Did Years Of Obama’s Anti-Semitic Words and Actions Incite Pittsburgh Shooting?
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Does Watching Porn Raise Your Testosterone Levels?
IN THE MAIL: From Tom Davis, M.D. & Dan Janal, Telemedicine Confidential: Keeping Your Family Safe.
ADVENTURES IN #METOO RACISM: #BelieveAllWomen was used to lynch Emmett Till, she said. Protesters tried to drown her out.
SHOCKER: Columbia U. report finds ‘lacks of diversity,’ despite spending $185 million on ‘faculty diversity.’ What would be news is a report saying “actually, we’re fine.” Remember, these aren’t about students, they’re about ensuring full employment for educrats.
NEVER-TRUMPER JOHN PODHORETZ IS NONETHELESS HIGHLY OFFENDED BY THE ANTI-TRUMP SMEARS:
Based on the early evidence, the shooter was not only consumed with a hatred of Jews but possessed a kind of sneering contempt for Trump on the grounds that Trump was basically a Jewish agent or a Jew-lover himself. Trump can only be blamed for the murderous Jew-killing actions of someone who thought of him that way by people who are so consumed by hatred of him that there is nothing they won’t blame him for.
I think that’s about right.
YES, IT DOES: Voter Fraud Exists.
PHIL BREDESEN IS ENCOUNTERING SOME OF THIS, TOO: Manchin trouble in West Virginia? Some people love him but won’t vote for him.
As the charismatic Democrat walks towards the Martinsburg High School float filled with high-schoolers, hay, and lots of boisterous cheers, Shank admits, despite wanting a photo with the senator and liking him, come Nov. 6, he will vote for Manchin’s Republican opponent, Morrisey.
“Yeah, he’s a good guy. I mean, his politics is … it is what it is. At least he got Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court,” said Shank of Manchin, a vote he added was that really important to him.
Curt Blickenstann says the same, but adds a caveat — switch parties and Manchin could get his vote. “Oh yeah, he’d get the support of West Virginia even more. West Virginia is a hard-working state. It’s middle-class people, and that’s what Trump stands for is the middle-class people,” he says of the president who won all of the state’s 55 counties and earned a whopping 67–26 percent statewide win over Hillary Clinton.
Manchin says he’s not doing that. “Why would I change — I am who I am no matter what party name is after my name, I’ve never changed,” he said.
Voters here haven’t really changed either, except they don’t vote much for Democrats anymore, even Democrats who look like Republicans in any other state but here. Why? Democrats here place faith in their platform and are pro-life and pro-gun.
So do Republicans here.
Well, stay tuned and see how it turns out.
ADRIANA COHEN: So Much For Civility.