Archive for 2021

DAVID SOLWAY: Leftism Is the True Pandemic. “It is a political disease for which we have many names—progressivism, Wokeism, Agenda 2030, the Great Reset, etc.—but they are all subsumed under the aegis of the Left, which approaches in stages or ‘waves.’”

HIGHER EDUCATION IS A TOXIC SWAMP: University of Michigan ousts composer who survived the Cultural Revolution for showing 1965 Othello film with Laurence Olivier in blackface. “Sheng, a highly accomplished composer, conductor and pianist, has had his music featured by prestigious groups including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chinese National Symphony Orchestra and the New York City Ballet Orchestra.”

A freshman complained, you see.

WE LIVE IN ORWELLIAN TIMES:

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A TALE OF TWO OLD KARMANN GHIAS: Those of you of a certain age will recognize the vehicle in the title, but what you likely didn’t know is what J. Warner Wallace claims can be learned about human beings from a couple of humble VWs graced with Italian bodies.

UPDATE: Unforgivable! Misspelling Karmann, that is. As penance, I will subject myself for the next six months to driving a British-made vehicle with Lucas (“Prince of Darkness”) Electrics. If you aren’t sure about that reference, ask Charles Glasser.

HE AND SINEMA JUST NEED TO SWITCH PARTIES: Manchin to Schumer: Your speech was “f*****g stupid.”

Just how badly has Senate control undermined Democratic unity? And how far will it go? Punchbowl reports this morning that four different sources say that Joe Manchin confronted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after his remarks blasting Republicans while taking their debt-ceiling deal. Manchin told Schumer that his remarks were … cool? Helpful? Amusing?

Er … not exactly.

Heh.

Plus: “Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have become so persona non grata that Joe Biden won’t even extend to Sinema the Exalted Democrat Order of The Victim after getting harassed in public restrooms and on planes by Bernie-Bro activists.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Comrade Biden’s Soviet Dreams Are Coming True Too Quickly. “It’s getting creepier by the minute out there and the sad thing is that so many formerly free Americans are all too willing to go along with it. The radicals from the 1960s who wanted all of the freedoms became jackbooted thug teachers who indoctrinated a generation to be not just obedient to a heavy-handed government, but thrilled with it as well.”