Archive for 2021
October 12, 2021
OFT EVIL WILL SHALL EVIL MAR:
Are you savoring the irony that the biggest assaults on the narrative lately have come from black celebrities and labor unions? Because I am.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says.
MY DOC HAD ME TAKING ASPIRIN, ALONG WITH HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AND DOXYCYCLINE, WHEN I HAD COVID: New study finds aspirin can significantly cut COVID risks — and even death. I did fine, though I had a very mild case.
JON GRUDEN EXPOSES THE NFL’S WOKE HYPOCRISY:
The NFL naturally released a statement condemning Gruden’s “appalling” emails: “The email from Jon Gruden denigrating DeMaurice Smith is appalling, abhorrent and wholly contrary to the NFL’s values. We condemn the statement and regret any harm that its publication may inflict on Mr. Smith or anyone else.”
What, exactly, are the NFL’s “values”? It’s hard to believe the league is offended by Gruden’s remarks given its careless indifference to actual crimes and misconduct committed by players and other team owners. The truth is that Gruden only insulted the “wrong” people—most notably, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
Goodell has a history of responding poorly to criticism. He banned Barstool Sports employees from the Super Bowl after they protested his Deflategate decision and created towels featuring his face with a clown nose, then dubiously claimed he knew nothing about the ban. NBC Sports later reported that Goodell was still “miffed” months after Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia was photographed wearing a Goodell clown shirt. Goodell’s wife once reportedly ran a fake Twitter account to defend her husband from criticism over the league’s defense of anthem kneelers.
Would it really be a surprise if the thin-skinned Goodell orchestrated the email leak against Gruden as revenge, conveniently distracting the media from his old pal Dan Snyder’s misconduct in the process? Ironically, doing so would prove Gruden’s point that he is an “anti football pussy.”
Heh. Goodell isn’t the only one in the new uber-woke NFL: Buccaneers remove Jon Gruden from Ring of Honor amid email controversy.
To be fair, all Gruden did was coach the Bucs, once an NFL laughing stock, to their first Super Bowl at the end of the 2002 season.
A SOUTHWEST PILOT EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENED OVER THE WEEKEND:
Gary Kelly, the CEO of Southwest, told employees last week that the airline had no choice but to comply with the regime’s vaccine mandate.
“Southwest Airlines is a federal contractor and we have no viable choice but to comply with the U.S. government mandate for employees to be vaccinated, and — like other airlines — we’re taking steps to comply,” Kelly said.
The pilot told American Greatness that the mandate did not sit well with him or his colleagues.
“This is a collection of very conservative white collar professionals that are very successful, and have done well,” he said. “You mandate a vaccine on them—and these aren’t necessarily people that are going to comply,” he explained, adding “to some extent they’re going to resist.”
He said that over the holiday weekend, Southwest probably saw a 20 percent increase in flights, and relied on the goodwill of pilots to fly those extra trips.
The way Southwest schedules these flights these days, he said, is they rely on a significant number of pilots to pick up an extra trip for time and a half overtime pay. That time and a half pay is usually enough of a enticement to draw the needed number of pilots to fly those trips, he said.
After the vaccine mandate, however, Southwest shouldn’t have expected any pilots to sign up for those extra flights, he said.
Read the whole thing.
WHERE NO 90 YEAR OLD MAN HAS GONE BEFORE: ‘Star Trek’ legend William Shatner set for launch into real space.
A friend sends this worry:
CENSORSHIP KILLS: That’s the message from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who cites the censorship of videos of doctors discussing how they successfully treated Covid patients with Ivermectin and other repurposed drugs.
BLOOD LIBELS: Democrats/Media Deploy Same “Eliminationist Narrative” Against School Parents As They Did Against Tea Party. “Nothing has changed, other than the names and faces. The media still plays the role of creating false narratives that ordinary law-abiding Americans who oppose liberals are dangerous and prone to violence.”
And the purpose of these narratives is to justify violence and oppression aimed at their political opponents.
THIS WAS QUOTED IN THE COMMENTS YESTERDAY, AND IT’S VERY TRUE: “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.” –T.S. Eliot.
IF YOU’VE MISSED LAUGHING WOLF’S BLOG…: In The Blink Of An Eye.
One second I was reading one of my regular reads (Instapundit, I think, not real clear at this point) when a bolt of lightning hit somewhere off to my right. The blinding flash and roar were almost simultaneous, and as I lost sight my body clenched up tight. I distinctly remember having a brief Buckley moment, thinking “This is going to hurt” and wondering if when my eyes opened/worked if I would be looking at Heaven, hell, or other. When my eyes could see again and my body unclenched, I was delighted to see I was still on the porch.
What I didn’t realize at the time was that while the main bolt did indeed miss me, a part of it came over to say hello.
Read the whole thing.
IF YOU CAN’T WIN, CHEAT: Terrified Virginia Democrats Seek to Change Election Laws After Voting Has Already Started. “It was all but inevitable that McAuliffe’s allies would attempt to meddle with election laws using public health as a pretext. Sure enough, the Democrat-dominated Fairfax Board of Supervisors has asked Gov. Ralph Northam to waive the witness signature requirement that Virginia law stipulates for all absentee ballots. Board Chairman Jeffrey McKay insists that the waiver is necessary due to the threat of COVID-19, yet cases are declining.”
TRANQUILITY BASE HERE; THE EGO HAS LANDED: Viral Fauci Doc Shot Shows Dr. Working Alongside Portrait Of Himself In Home Office.
Earlier: “So Rotten Tomatoes Appears to Have Disabled the Audience Score On Fauci…However, the IMDB user ratings may give you an idea how it’s going over.”
EITHER WORKS WELL IF YOU PRACTICE ENOUGH: Point Shooting Vs. Sighted Fire: Which is Better?
GOOD FOR THEM: The Amish Refuse Flu Manchu Foolishness. “The Amish did everything the Democratic Media Complex said was anathema and came through just fine, with no notable excess deaths, and got on with living their lives.”
THE GREAT RESIGNATION: Big Trouble Ahead as Record Number of Workers Quit Their Jobs in August.
CRISIS BY DESIGN: Orchestrated crisis to bring tens of thousands of people to southern border in coming weeks. “With papers or without papers, we are ready for war.”
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Professor Canceled by Woke Outrage Mob Has Last Laugh. “I’m pleased to announce that Dorian Abbot’s lecture on extrasolar planets, meant to be the 2021 Carlson Lecture at MIT (until MIT disgraced itself by yielding to pressure to cancel it), will be given at Princeton on the date it was to be given at MIT: Oct. 21…Score another one for the Good Guys, but wait, that’s not all. Professor Abbot ‘has been recognized as a Hero of Intellectual Freedom by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA).’ ACTA President Michael Poliakoff noted that: ‘In addition to his distinguished contributions to geophysical science, Dr. Abbot has rendered a service to the academy by challenging its reliance on criteria other than individual merit in student admissions and in faculty hiring. Like his work in natural science, his challenges to academic procedure call out for discussion, not a cowardly cancelation of an honor due to him for his scientific contributions. How sad that MIT, a world-famous place of science, cannot withstand a Twitter storm and live up to the ethic of science.’”
MARK JUDGE: Remember When Rolling Stone Did Great Journalism? Okay, But I Do.
But that was a long time ago. It’s hard to believe a magazine that once employed Tom Wolfe, P.J. O’Rourke and Hunter S. Thompson has been reduced to this: Rolling Stone Is Trying to Cancel Eric Clapton.