Archive for 2019

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comments.

KRISTINA BAUM IS RUNNING THE RACE OF HER LIFE: And all the while dealing with hostile journalists covering Congress. This young lady is tough, humble and full of faith.

LEFT WING FASCISM NEVER DISAPPOINTS: “Mass. teacher accused of planting live ammo at school, then calling police.” If the facts don’t fit your narrative, then invent the facts. Remember, it’s “for the children”:

“Southbridge police said high school biology teacher Alfred Purcell III, 57, of Woodstock, Connecticut, reported to staff that he had just found one live round of 9 mm ammunition in the rear stairwell. The school was placed on lock down. During the lockdown, police and Southbridge High School staff reviewed video footage and saw Purcell removing the live round of ammunition from his pocket, dropping it on the floor and quickly leaving the area, police said.

About 10 minutes later, the video shows Purcell standing over the ammunition and taking a picture of it with a cellphone, police said.”

Like Stalin said: “If you want to make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs.”

Or as one of his current admirers put it: “I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.”

THE MAIN PROBLEM IS THAT SHE WASN’T A PREGNANT MAN: Blurred lines: A pregnant man’s tragedy tests gender notions.

When the man arrived at the hospital with severe abdominal pains, a nurse didn’t consider it an emergency, noting that he was obese and had stopped taking blood pressure medicines. In reality, he was pregnant — a transgender man in labor that was about to end in a stillbirth.

The tragic case, described in Wednesday’s New England Journal of Medicine, points to larger issues about assigning labels or making assumptions in a society increasingly confronting gender variations in sports , entertainment and government. . . .

“The point is not what’s happened to this particular individual but this is an example of what happens to transgender people interacting with the health care system,” said the lead author, Dr. Daphna Stroumsa of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

“He was rightly classified as a man” in the medical records and appears masculine, Stroumsa said. “But that classification threw us off from considering his actual medical needs.”

If your classification rules out a serious medical issue that you in fact suffer from, then you’re not “rightly classified.” And when you have a news story that reads: “Moments later, the man delivered a stillborn baby,” well, your classifications systems aren’t working right.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The Coming Democrat Civil War. “Remember Steve’s Second Law of Holes: When your opponent is in one, get him a bigger and nicer shovel.”