CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR HELEN KELLER: Time Mag. Liberal Says Helen Keller ‘Just Another Privileged White Person.’
To some Black disability rights activists, like Anita Cameron, Helen Keller is not radical at all, “just another, despite disabilities, privileged white person,” and yet another example of history telling the story of privileged white Americans.
Hey, you know who else was just another privileged white woman from American history?
HEATHER MAC DONALD: White Supremacy in Tutus. Classical ballet has largely escaped the revisionist destruction that hit the opera and theater stages years ago. But no more: Diversity and bias obsessions come for Swan Lake.
BRYAN PRESTON: The COVID Vaccine Messaging Is Just Getting More Confusing. “Is it just me, or is the messaging on the COVID vaccines more than a little off? Here’s NBC medical analyst Dr. Vin Gupta either contradicting himself, moving the goalposts again, or just saying the vaccine can’t be trusted yet but he’s getting it anyway to virtue-signal to us unwashed commoners.”
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ANDY NGO: Portland lets Antifa win big — again.
Soon after last week’s raid on the occupied house, some 100 Antifa comrades mobilized through social media to retake the space. “There is an active call for numbers, defensive gear and supplies and change of clothes,” tweeted Antifa group Youth Liberation Front.
Within a few hours, the entire street was blocked off with stolen fencing, wood and junk taken from nearby homes. Some brought in power tools to reinforce the barriers. The militants laid out piles of rocks, metal spikes and glass bottles at strategic points to act as supply points for projectile weapons. They lined the road with impromptu “booby traps” — upward-facing nail strips, caltrops and more.
Portland police officers tried to shut down the RHAZ early on, but they were attacked and chased away. Their police cruisers were smashed up; they didn’t return.
“Those present at the barricades should leave it behind, put down your weapons and allow the neighborhood to return to peace and order,” Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell asked the militants, who ignored his polite request.
To protect their autonomous zone, the militants had their own team of roving “security,” like at CHAZ. They openly carried rifles and pistols. Neighborhood families felt terrorized; some have left.
Read the whole thing.
LOGISTICS: This Is How We’ll Vaccinate the World Against COVID-19.
Operation Warp Speed has been a real triumph. And remember, you can’t spell “Triumph” without “Trump.”
VDH: Biden Should Beware of Nemesis.
To win, the Democrats knowingly drafted the 77-year old Biden (who has since turned 78) to put a familiar veneer on radical agendas that had frightened primary voters. At times, Democrats seemed fated to be directly tied to the statue toppling, protesting, rioting and violence that plagued American cities for much of the summer.
Given the Democrats’ Faustian bargain with their leftmost faction, destructive rumors about Biden’s faculties or his family’s financial escapades will more likely come from his own party’s left wing, eager for a Harris presidency, rather than from the Republican opposition.
Biden will enter office with an ethical cloud hanging over his head — one that could have been vetted and adjudicated rather than blacked out for most of 2020. His son, brother and perhaps family associates may talk if faced with FBI and IRS probes, if not a special counsel investigation.
It will not help Biden that to defeat Trump, many of our institutions were deformed. Special counsels usually never receive a blank check — 22 months and $32 million — to assemble a team of partisans to investigate a new president on mostly hearsay evidence and an opposition-concocted dossier.
But that precedent ended with the ill-conceived Robert Muller investigation. By spring, Biden could have done to him what was done to Trump — and what Biden himself so frequently cheered on.
The “shock” that Democrats will feign when 2021 onward turns into a funhouse mirror version of the last four years will be astonishing to watch. As Michael Barone wrote earlier this month, Democrats are now reaping the whirlwind of their 2016 election ‘Resistance.’ “Democrats who are dismayed that many Americans aren’t meekly accepting the legitimacy of the Biden presidency are in the process of learning a lesson taught a very long time ago. You reap what you sow.”
And on the flip-side: CNN’s Jake Tapper Accidentally Previews Media’s New Biden Defense Strategy, and It Is Pathetic.
IMPRESSIVE: Amazon’s answer to SpaceX Starlink delivers 400Mbps in prototype phase.
To reduce production costs, Amazon said it must “decrease the size, weight, and complexity” of the antenna. But this is difficult with Ka-band equipment, which needs “more physical separation between transmit and receive antennas to cover its wide frequency range,” Amazon said. “For this reason, legacy Ka-band antennas place the transmit antenna and receive antenna next to one another, requiring a larger surface area and increasing production costs.”
Amazon said its solution is to use “tiny antenna element structures to overlay one over the other. This has never been accomplished in the Ka-band… Our design uses a combination of digital and analog components to electronically steer Ka-band beams toward satellites passing overhead.” This method let Amazon create a “single aperture phased array antenna that measures 12 inches in diameter, making it three times smaller and proportionately lighter than legacy antenna designs,” the company said.
That’s some nifty engineering.
IT’S HARD TO BINGE-DRINK WITH YOUR FRIENDS WHEN YOU’RE TAKING CLASSES ONLINE FROM YOUR PARENTS’ HOUSE: COVID-19 pandemic has college kids drinking less, survey suggests.
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SINCE HE WAS A REPUBLICAN, TIMESPEOPLE ASSUME THAT HE MUST HAVE BEEN WRONG: Frederick Douglass vs. the 1619 Project. New video from Reason TV:
TOO BAD WE’VE KEPT EVERYONE INDOORS: Researchers uncover evidence that UV radiation from sunlight reduces COVID-19 transmission.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Rhode Island governor joins list of prominent Democrats under fire for violating own coronavirus recommendation.
Related: COVID Hysteria Serves Desire for Power.
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