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Archive for 2021
March 5, 2021
JIM TREACHER: Alec Baldwin Quits Twitter (Again).
Hey, at least he hasn’t punched anybody! Yet.
This is one of those Too Online stories that makes me grateful for these new COVID vaccines, because it’s proof that everybody’s been cooped up way too long. I mean, I just wrote an entire blog post about a famously mercurial actor quitting a social media platform (again) because he said something even dumber than usual (again). And you just read it all the way to the end.
Go outside already!
Sound advice.
“FEMINIST MALES” ARE THE WORST: Cuomo once boasted of signing bill to protect women from predators on campus.
GOOD LORD: Great Balls of Fire! Judges Gone Wild in the Missouri Judiciary Make Telenovelas Look Humdrum. “Judge Douglas Beach and Judge Erin Burlison have skeletons in their closets, too. For instance, Beach is a former judge on the St. Louis County Circuit Court and now works at JAMS, a mediation company that Zellweger orders petitioners in her courtroom to use at the exorbitant price of $1,200 down and $450 an hour. A whistleblower attorney in St. Louis contacted PJ Media confidentially to tell the public what is really happening in St. Louis courts. This attorney with ten years of experience told PJM, ‘If a litigant cannot pay the amount ordered, a judge has contempt power to strike all the litigant’s pleadings from a case.’ In other words, if you can’t pay for justice, you aren’t getting it. Is that what you thought justice was in America? Due process in Saint Louis County appears to be gasping for its last breath, if not dead.”
ON THE GRENADE RANGE: An Army sergeant prepares to hurl a hand grenade during the 2021 Best Warrior Competition held at Florence Military Reservation, Arizona.
SO COLLEGES ARE CLOSED, YET THE STUDENTS ARE LEARNING SOMETHING ABOUT THE WORLD: Students say colleges remaining closed is politically motivated.
“WAS THIS IN MAGA COUNTRY?” Washington State Man who accused police of racial profiling called the cops on himself.
SOMEBODY IN THE COMMENTS recommended The Dawlish Chronicles a while back and I’m reading the series now. Good, Victorian naval fun.
MIKE POMPEO TELLS HUGH HEWITT, he’s all-in on an all-out boycott of China’s 2022 Olympics.
IT’S A MYSTERY: Why is Amazon Stock Down?
Related: I Haven’t Used Amazon For Almost 3 Months And I Don’t Miss It One Bit.
Get woke, go broke?
GOOD ADVICE: Do not let the Washington Post raise your sons.
FANTASTIC VOYAGE: This start-up is building tiny injectable robots to attack tumors. “Backed by $20 million in venture capital funding and building off recent advances in robotics and precision manufacturing, the Culver City, Calif., company is developing a device the size of a breadcrumb that doctors can insert into the spine or skull and magnetically steer to a target to deliver a precise dose of drugs. The plan is to move to clinical trials by 2023.”
No Raquel Welch?
BYRON YORK: Developing some perspective on the Capitol riot.
In the last few days we’ve seen a series of hearings in the House and Senate on the January 6 riot at the Capitol. After all the talk, we still don’t know some of the basic facts of the riot, especially the circumstances surrounding the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, the only law enforcement officer and only non-rioter to die in the violence. But in spite of the gaps in our knowledge, a sense of perspective on the riot — Who was involved? What did they think they were doing? — has begun to emerge.
First, the riot is often referred to as an “armed insurrection.” A search of the Nexis database of newspapers, websites, and cable news transcripts finds 2,339 times since January 6 in which the riot was described as an “armed insurrection.” On many other occasions, the rioters were described simply as “armed.” But the description requires an asterisk that is rarely, if ever, applied. A small number of the rioters did indeed have baseball bats or bear spray, and a few used flagsticks or even, in one case, a crutch as weapons to assault Capitol police. But the armed insurrectionists did not use any firearms. Before January 6, if anyone heard the phrase “armed insurrection,” he or she might have assumed guns were involved. At the Capitol riot, they weren’t.
The whole thing was wildly overblown to suit the Democrats’ and media’s agenda. Much of what we were told was false, and often outright dishonest. Republicans allowed themselves to be bulldozed into going along for reasons of “decency.” As usual, the decency was a sham.
Related: Senate Sick of FBI Stonewalling.
WHICH INSTITUTION WILL PIVOT NEXT? When Bethany Christian Services caved to the Cancel Culture’s pressure to allow gay couples to adopt children without parents, it marked a hugely significant pivot by a major player in America’s culture wars, according to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler, Jr:
“Bethany’s surrender exemplifies the growing cultural pressures from the LGBTQ community and the looming threat of the Equality Act. The moral revolution is now firmly established in the Democratic majorities in Congress and in the White House, where President Biden is proudly leading the charge for what are presented as LGBTQ rights, but would actually mean a near total restructuring of society. The consequence is a legislative agenda designed to coerce Americans into the celebration of the LGBTQ agenda.”
Four more years of this will not end well.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: California Is Lost, Getting Rid of Newsom Won’t Save It. “I’ve been writing for years that conservatives should never get too excited about getting Democrats we don’t like out of office because there is almost always someone worse waiting in the wings as a replacement. It’s almost guaranteed that whomever would replace Newsom would be another Democrat, and that’s not a pretty sight in California.”
BOOK BANNING in the age of Amazon.