CAN’T STAND FREE SPEECH? YOU’RE FIRED! A proposal for dealing with the young bigots now holding publishers and newspapers hostage:

So here is an idea — and I give it out there for free. One of the great moments of Ronald Reagan’s presidency was his firing of the airline traffic controllers. In August 1981, these federal employees held the public of the United States government and public hostage. Their unreasonable demands were jeopardizing the American public’s travel plans at peak holiday travel season. In one of the great stands of his presidency, Reagan overnight fired 11,000 air traffic controllers who had refused to return to work unless their demands were met. New, non-recalcitrant staff were immediately brought in to replace the deeply replaceable workers and business soon returned to normal. The President also instituted a lifetime ban on rehiring of these workers.

If publishing house after publishing house and paper after paper is going to be held hostage by the young army of bigots like the anti-Rowling brigade it is high time that somebody made an example of them. The people who cannot bear to work at a publishing house that publishes The Ickabog are a very good and agreeable place to start. There are at least 100 people at Hachette who have now identified themselves as ignorant of the tenets of a free society and utterly unsuited to the industry they have chosen to work in.

I don’t know that there should be a lifetime ban on them working in the publishing industry. Some among their number might grow up. But there should certainly be a large number of much-desired job vacancies coming up at Hachette soon. 

At some point, employers in a wide variety of industries are going to have to push back against all of the safetyism that has been programmed into their young employees.

ANN ALTHOUSE ARMS HERSELF. And looks delighted at the result.

NOTHING GOOD: What Happens When the Cops Have Had Enough?

PHYSICAL GYMNASTICS CANCELLED BY MENTAL GYMNASTICS: Black Man Puts Up Exercise Ropes in Oakland. Mayor Condemns ‘Nooses’ as ‘Hate Crimes.’

A FISKING OCCURS: How to Talk to Relatives Who Care More About Looting Than Black Lives.

IT’S MUCH WORSE THAN THE 1950S MCCARTHY ERA, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN A TERRIBLE DESCENT INTO HYSTERIA: We are living through a frenzy of conformity.

CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS AS THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN: Warren was appointed by a Republican president, Eisenhower, as was Roberts, by Bush II. Kylee Zempel details the seven decisions in which Roberts appears to be intent on leading a new “Warren Revolution” on the High Court.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: 87% of Students Say Online-Only Legal Ed Is Overpriced; 61% May Reconsider Legal Career Or Take A Hiatus If Law Schools Cannot Be On Ground Due To COVID-19.

OUCH: Mike Pompeo Calls John Bolton A Liar And A Traitor Who Damaged America.

SO SUDDENLY “JUNETEENTH” IS A BIG DEAL. I’ve been wishing people a happy Juneteenth for at least a decade now. And why not celebrate a holiday where a Republican president’s general ordered Democrats to free their slaves?

“SHOULD” OR NOT, ODDS ARE THEY WON’T: Americans Should Never Again Comply With Pandemic Lockdown Orders. The obvious politicization and incompetence of our public health authorities means that people won’t listen next time the way they listened this time.

RIP: Ian Holm, Bilbo Baggins in Lord of the Rings and Ash in Alien, dead at 88.

TED CRUZ COMPLETELY DESTROYS JOHN ROBERTS ON SENATE FLOOR OVER DACA DECISION.

THIS ISN’T THE WAY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS REPORTING IT: Trump Campaign Ad Uses Antifa Symbol, But the Symbol Has a Disgusting Backstory…

NO, MAIL-IN VOTING IS NOT THE SAME AS ABSENTEE BALLOT VOTING: Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) is the Ranking Minority Member of the House Administration Committee, which oversees the daily operations of the lower chamber of Congress and oversight of federal elections. He’s been an aggressive battler of the Democrats’ mail-in voting proposals and their proxy voting system for House members.

In the following video, Davis talks with Washington state Secretary of State Kim Wyman, who, among much else, explains why and how Nancy Pelosi’s mail-in voting proposal is a far cry from using an absentee ballot. The difference is subtle but profoundly important, according to Wyman, who oversees her state’s mail-in system, which, Oh-By-The-Way, requires voter ID to vote.

JAMES LILEKS: “I have this queasy, greasy feeling in my stomach that all these signs of the growth and enthusiasms of my beloved city will end up as reminders of something we thought would continue – but stuttered and fell. There’s a lot of turbulence in the Minneapolis psyche these days. A lot of readjusting and rebalancing. Pretty sure what the end result will be, too.”

This 1965 film, created to sell Detroit as a possible host of the 1968 Olympics, looks like something out of The Last Days of Pompeii when viewed in 2020:

Related: American Cities Take Double-Barreled Hit; How Will They Look in the Future?

WHO SAYS AMERICAN INGENUITY IS DEAD? How A Filmmaker Got The #1 Movie In America During A Pandemic. “We saw an absurd loophole in the system that at any other time would be impossible to exploit and thought it would be funny. Last year, the number one film at this time was ‘The Secret Life of Pets 2’. This year, it was a $0 budget horror film made over Zoom.”

Read the whole thing.

FIGHT CENSORSHIP, READ THIS POST! The Heritage Foundation was censored by YouTube, but they are fighting back, according to The Federalist.

TEN YEARS AGO THIS WOULD HAVE BOTHERED ME: Bad News Fauci: NFL Season May Not Happen.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Medical school apologizes for ‘I can’t breathe’ question on cardiovascular quiz: ‘insensitive and upsetting.’

THUS, THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Jewish Democratic Council says it won’t back Ilhan Omar, mum on endorsing her primary opponent.

YESTERDAY CAME SUDDENLY: All your childhood memories are probably racist.

Did you know that Paul McCartney once wrote a song celebrating slavery? Well, neither did he. It took about half a century after “Penny Lane” was a hit for the Beatles before historians decided that this street in Liverpool was a legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Sir Paul wrote the song as a nostalgic ode to Penny Lane as the scene of childhood happiness “beneath the blue suburban skies.” The Liverpool-born musician could not have known, while composing the cheerful tune in the mid-1960s, that scholars would one day conclude Penny Lane was probably named in honor of James Penny, a local mariner who made his fortune in the slave trade in the 1700s. Historians have not been able to prove this as a certainty, but the mere possibility was enough to inspire vandals to deface a sign in Liverpool with graffiti: “RACIST Lane.”

History is a horror show for liberals, who only look to the past in search of grievances they can exploit in their remorseless quest for political power. The liberal has a quasi-religious faith in Progress, which means that yesterday — another McCartney song title — was self-evidently worse than today. The past was a bad time, according to liberals, who see nothing there but oppression. Your nostalgia for the pleasant memories of childhood is almost certainly racist, and probably also sexist and homophobic. Now that I think about it, didn’t McCartney’s lyrics in “Get Back” mock someone who “thought she was a woman, but she was another man”? Isn’t this the textbook definition of transphobic hate speech?

Even the Beatles may not be immune from The Great Forgetting:

As the Who suit up for what I suppose will be their final tour (“Who’s Left”?), Chuck Klosterman points out in his book But What if We’re Wrong? that whole forms die out. He compares rock to 19th-century marching music: nothing left of the latter except John Philip Sousa. That’s it. And Sousa himself is barely remembered. In 100 years rock might be gone too, Klosterman guesses. Maybe we’ll remember one rock act. Who will it be? Maybe none of the obvious answers. It certainly wasn’t obvious at the time of Fitzgerald’s death that The Great Gatsby would be the best-remembered novel he or anyone else wrote in the first half of the 20th century. As for the novels of the second half of the 20th century, the clock is ticking on them. The Catcher in the Rye is moribund. Generation X was the last to revere that book. Teaching it to young people today would get you ridiculed. To Kill a Mockingbird? It had a good run but it’s now being labeled a “white savior” story by the grandchildren of those who revered it. Soon schools and teachers will be shunning it.

To Kill a Mockingbird? Atticus Finch is literature’s most celebrated rape apologist!

PUBLIC HEALTH: Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo laying off 22 staffers due to financial impact of COVID-19.