Archive for 2022

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Okay, honestly, I hope you can’t use this. I mean, I hope you don’t need this.

LEBRON JAMES’ SON IS GETTING FLAK FROM SPORTS JOURNALISTS because he has a cute blonde 17-year-old girlfriend. Well, so did I when I was 18, but I wasn’t black, and interracial dating apparently upsets our “progressive” sports journos now, I guess because they’re garbage people.

RECYCLING IS STILL GARBAGE:  Taking Out the Trash: What We Get Wrong About Recycling. If you haven’t been able to deprogram the recycling religionists in your household, you might show them this video from Kite and Key Media, which uses gentle humor to present the facts. Another of their videos exposes the follies of the war on plastic, which I’ve argued is the modern equivalent of the sumptuary laws formerly used by nobles to keep the peasants and bourgeoisie in their place.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Terror in the Tunnels. Violent crime is surging on New York subways because the justice system switched its focus from enlightened prevention to post-mayhem mop-up.

PHONICS VINDICATED: Hard to believe but it’s true. A key professor at Columbia University Teachers’ College now says the argument is over, phonics is by far the best way to teach kids to read. Ron Kessler is astounded that the New York Times gives this development such prominence, and don’t miss his personal experience with the failure of the liberals’ long-favored Whole Word approach.