Archive for 2020
November 22, 2020
DEMOCRATS ALWAYS WANT TO CRIMINALIZE THEIR OPPOSITION: Criminalizing Politics: Michigan GOP Lawmakers Threatened With Criminal Investigation For Meeting With Trump On Certification.
2020 WON’T QUIT: The US is running out of wasp venom. That’s bad. Can we do something with the murder hornets? Just spitballing here.
PUSHBACK: Kentucky AG joins legal challenge to governor’s order banning in-person learning at schools.
Related: Seen on Facebook: “BTW, this is NOT photoshop.”
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Apple Looks to Soften Bill That Fights Forced Labor in China.
PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939: German police barge into the house of anti-lockdown activist Dr Andreas Noack, arrest him during YouTube livestream: Watch video.
Or perhaps 1979: there are plenty of leftists — and obviously not just in Germany — who view The Lives of Others as a how-to guide for efficient government.
THE REVOLUTION EVENTUALLY DEVOURS ITS OWN: John Cleese accused of transphobia after doubling down on support of J.K. Rowling with controversial tweet.
Flashback: John Cleese morphed into Theodore Dalrymple so slowly, I hardly even noticed.
TESTOSTERONE IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEART: Hormone therapy for prostate cancer may raise heart risks. “Long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) increased the risk of heart-related death nearly fourfold in a group of prostate cancer patients, and also caused their heart fitness to decrease, researchers found.”
HOWIE CARR: Pam Kelley, a Kennedy casualty, passes away.
For putting Pam Kelley in a wheelchair for the rest of her life, the family-retainer judge fined Joe Kennedy $100.
That’s the Kennedy M.O. They all live their lives like Tom and Daisy Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby.”
“They were careless people,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. “They smashed up things and creatures and retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Read the whole thing.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Elizabeth Warren and AOC’s Push to ‘Cancel’ $50k in Student Loan Debt Ignores the Reason College Is So Expensive.
IN THE MAIL: 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project.
FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: University of Illinois unveils plan to crack down on anti-Semitism days after feds open investigation.
OUT: I AM STRONG, I AM INVINCIBLE. IN: BOYS HAVE COOTIES! Duke sorority council bans events with male groups. “According to a post on the Duke Panhellenic Association’s Instagram page, the Panhellenic Council voted to ban mixers with all-male organizations to focus on women’s empowerment. The post states that all-male organizations cause concern amongst other groups due to gender dynamics and the objectification of women.”
NOW OUT: Kurt Schlichter’s latest Kelly Turnbull book, Crisis.