GOOD: An Independent Investigator Will Probe School’s Role in the Oxford High School Shooting.

#RESIST: 6th Circuit Delivers Another Body Blow to Biden’s OSHA Vax Mandate. “It turned out that being forced to choose between injecting yourself with a controversial novel vaccine or losing your livelihood, as well as the entire process of opening up your private personal business to intrusive stooges, was really unpopular.”

(ALMOST) EVERY SUNDAY I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE WRITERS:  Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There is also a fun vignette thing.  Many a novel has started in the comments of According to Hoyt’s Sunday promo post.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, JOURNAL INTEGRITY EDITION: Another ‘Sokal’ Hoax? The Latest Imitation Calls an Academic Journal’s Integrity Into Question.

The legacy of the legendary academic prankster Alan Sokal lives on.

The journal Higher Education Quarterly published a study last month purporting to show that donations from right-wing benefactors influence scholars to promote similarly conservative causes and candidates for jobs. The authors are listed as “Sage Owens” and “Kal Avers-Lynde III” — initials that spell out SOKAL III. It didn’t take long for online sleuths to out it as a hoax.

The Higher Ed Quarterly paper appears to be the latest imitation of Sokal’s infamous 1996 prank, in which he tricked the journal Social Text into publishing an article that he later revealed to be entirely a joke.

Sokal, a professor of physics at New York University, was lauded by conservative critics of higher education for his sendup of the progressive political views taking hold in academe. The original Sokal hoax also raised a host of questions about the integrity of the peer-review process that remain as relevant today as they were 25 years ago.

Among the glaring issues with the Higher Education Quarterly paper is that the authors are not affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles, as they are listed.

“After reading through it, I had my doubts,” said Robert K. Toutkoushian, a professor of higher education at the University of Georgia and a member of the editorial board of Higher Education Quarterly. For one thing, Toutkoushian said, the paper cited a survey of faculty that got an 83-percent response rate, which seemed highly improbable. “Good luck getting 5 percent of faculty to respond,” he said. . . .

The editors of the journal did not respond to a request for comment. Wiley, the journal’s publisher, initially did not respond to a request for comment. Late Wednesday, a Wiley representative said, “Higher Education Quarterly takes research integrity incredibly seriously and is moving swiftly to retract the article, given that the data has been identified as fabricated and the authors have not disclosed their true identities.”

But one of the purported authors of the paper did respond to an email from The Chronicle, writing that the journal “ought to be embarrassed” for accepting such obviously shoddy work. “No referee asked to see our data,” wrote the alleged author, using the name Sage Owens, from the email address . The writer declined to provide any other identifying details.

The conclusions were too good to check.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Who funds Extinction Rebellion? American & UK millionaires – ‘Some of America’s most famous families, including the Kennedys & the Gettys’.

OH, DEAR LORD:  Tasmania Building a “Black Box” Recorder for Climate Change.

This is not from the Babylon Bee. Repeat: this is not from the Babylon Bee.

YES, YES, BUT SHOULD WE BE THANKING HIM?

FOR ONE, THE PANIC IGNORES HOW VIRUSES HAVE ALWAYS WORKED:  Sunday Talks, Dr. Ben Carson Discusses The Omicron Variant Madness.

ONLY FOOLS AND CRAZY PEOPLE WOULD DO THIS IN A LABOR SHORTAGE:  Mandates Have Consequences – Leesburg Virginia Finds Out The Police Were Not Bluffing, Now Facing a Shortage of Officers.

So, you know, democrats who never figured out the link between work and wealth.

BUT, BUT, BUT, TRUMP WAS IN COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA! ELEVENTY!  U.S. Intel: Russia Preparing Military Offensive Against Ukraine.

WE DON’T HAVE A DEMOCRACY:  China’s Communist Party Mocks U.S. Democracy Ahead of Biden Summit.

And why should we care if a 3rd world sh*thole who can only survive if we buy their crappy products mocks us?
Divest from China with all possible speed, and ignore them as they they fall apart. (Sending them Fauci and Biden in shipping containers with apples in their mouths is optional, but kind of cheery. We can stamp the containers “return to sender.”  Heck, send the rest of the Junta, to show willing.)

THAT’S BECAUSE ALL THE MEDIA TALK ABOUT HIM AS THOUGH HE WERE A CAR:  Waukesha Massacre Suspect Has The Sads.

OCCASIONAL CORTEX IS A HOAX, ACCORDING TO THINKING HUMANS:  Smash And Grab Is A Hoax Per AOC.

I DON’T WANT TO SAY ANYTHING TO DR. FAUCI:  Rand Paul: Americans, Live Your Life This Holiday Season.

I want him on a shipping container to China. With an apple in his mouth.

IT’S NOT WEAKNESS. HE’S ON THEIR SIDE:  U.S. Enemies Take Advantage of Biden Weakness.

Let’s go Brandon!

SOME OF US FIGURED IT OUT WHEN THE LOCKDOWNS MADE NO SENSE WHATSOEVER:  COVID-19 a Pandemic of Fear ‘Manufactured’ by Authorities: Yale Epidemiologist.

Let’s say you’re one of those insane people who dismissed the low numbers of death/serious illness aboard the Diamond Princess because apparently people on cruise ships have “top quality medical care” (Coo-ey! Is the sky made of candy floss in your world?) in what world — even a candy floss sky one — did it make sense to close local grocery stores but keep walmart open? In what world did it make sense to direct flow in stores so everyone crammed in through the same door, and everyone walked the same path (thereby a crowded/grimy, etc. path)?  In what world did reducing hours of stores make sense? In what world did it make sense to wear a mask to your table then remove it to eat? (Are you less contagious when sitting?) In what world did curfews make sense? In what world did mask mandates outside in botanic gardens and zoos make sense? In what world did it make sense that you were hectored for getting out and driving around, while remaining your car?
In what world did the government stomp on every — no matter how crackpot or inocuous — rumored treatment? In what world, despite all studies to the contrary, do two layers of thin fabric stave off viral infection? In what world are doctors and nurses laid off by the thousands during a supposed pandemic? And finally in what world does it make any sense that a completely ineffective — if not (the numbers are not trustworthy in the sense that we can’t trust anything from collection to reporting, but in the UK there are indications that way) counterproductive — vaccine is being forced on the population by government mandate?

Your government is trying to terrorize you. In face, governments all over the world are trying to terrorize their subjects.  As the “blue model” (Socialist/Marxist-lite model of governance) founders on its internal contradictions and the demise of mass media allows us all to see it, the overreaching, engorged governments and their minions are trying to subdue those they consider their subjects by any means necessary.

Proceed accordingly.