Archive for 2022

SHE’S NOT THE ONLY WOMAN WHO’S SEEN THIS DONE TO A MALE SHE LOVES:  What Princeton Did to My Husband.

Husbands, sons, brothers, friends, we see the system come for them.  And trust me, that thing about the peaceful planet of women? Poppycock. Female vengeance burns slower and sometimes underhanded, but it burns very thoroughly.  When these woke lovies find themselves torn limb from limb it will be middle aged women who have had enough of this.  And it will be with our bare, short-nailed hands.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG!

AS ALWAYS, LIFE IMITATES AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Epileptic Child Has Seizure After Gazing At Latest Pride Flag.

—The Babylon Bee, May 24th.

The Brooklyn Nets today: Hold my beer!

Related: The History of TV Color Bars, One of the First Electronic Graphics Ever Made.

UPDATE: Another prophecy from the Bee came true today: Powerful: Military To Allow Troops To Replace Camo With Colors Of Their Gender Identity Flag.

—The Babylon Bee, March 13th, 2021.

The Marine Corps today:

RAND PAUL DEMANDS ANSWERS ABOUT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES GETTING PAYMENTS FROM DRUG COMPANIES THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO OVERSEE: “NIH is a revolving door of tens of billions of dollars in government grant-making coupled with hundreds of millions of dollars in private—non-transparent—royalty payments. There needs to be a lot more sunshine on this potentially unholy alliance.’ ‘When a federal bureaucrat pops up on television giving us health instructions, who has paid them and for what research and technology?’ [Adam Andrzejewski of OpenTheBooks] asks. ‘When a patient agrees to a clinical trial or experimental treatment, what financial interests are involved?’”

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Biden’s Chief of Staff, and the Acting Shadow President, Ron Klain is Obsessed With High Gas Prices.

But He Has a Plan For Dealing With Them. “Klain didn’t care about gas prices before they started really hurting Democrats’ poll numbers. In fact, Democrats celebrated high fuel prices as a necessary part of their Incredible Transition. But now Klain’s worried about them. Not because it hurts American citizens, but because it hurts anti-American Democrats.”

A FRIEND COMMENTS: “There is no elected official running the White House, or the United States, right now. It’s deeply troubling that more people aren’t freaking out about this. We all know it’s true.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Joanne Jacobs on Excellent Lambs.

In the 1960s, campus protesters rejected adult authority, writes William Deresiewicz. Now the “young progressive elite” want the grownups to protect them from emotional and psychological harm, writes William Deresiewicz on Bari Weiss’s Common Sense Substack.

Not much has changed since he wrote Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of America’s Elite in 2013, he writes.

We are back to in loco parentis, in fact if not in law. College is now regarded as the last stage of childhood, not the first of adulthood. . . . The nature of woke protests, the absence of Covid and other protests, the whole phenomenon of excellent sheephood: all of them speak to the central dilemma of contemporary youth, which is that society has not given them any way to grow up — not financially, not psychologically, not morally.

. . . The attributes of adulthood — responsibility, maturity, self-sacrifice, self-control — are no longer valued, and frequently no longer modeled. So children are stuck: they want to be adults, but they don’t know how.

Flashback: The College Bureaucracy That Never Shrinks.