ROGER KIMBALL: Highways to Utopia. “In the West, what we have witnessed since the so-called ‘Progressive’ movement of the 1910s and 1920s is the rise of a bureaucratic elite that has increasingly absorbed the prerogatives of power from legislative bodies.”
Archive for 2022
May 31, 2022
DEAL OF THE DAY: Genuine Buffalo Leather Travel Duffle Bag. #CommissionEarned
AN IDIOTIC STUNT PERFORMED BY AN IDIOT FOR THE BENEFIT OF IDIOTS: Leftist Lunatic in Lipstick and Wig Smears Mona Lisa With Cake to Save the Planet.
IS ANYONE SURPRISED BY THIS? Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore’s ‘Woke’ Firm Invests in Chinese Slave Labor.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Elite San Francisco school sees spike in D’s and F’s after dropping merit-based admissions.
Of the 620 students in Lowell’s freshman class, 24.4% received at least D or F in their first semester, according to internal records obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.
This is almost triple the number of the first-year students in the two years before – 7.9% in fall 2020 and 7.7% in fall 2019. The Chronicle notes that fall 2020 was also the first full semester of remote learning.
The fall 2021 class was chosen primarily based on a lottery instead of a decades-old merit-based system based on test scores and grades, bringing it in line with almost every other high school in the city.
Putting kids into schools that they aren’t prepared for harms the schools and the kids, but I suppose that’s the point.
A PACK, NOT A HERD: Uvalde – The Case For More Guns.
ICYMI: KURT SCHLICHTER: The New Normal Is Failure.
The clusterfark in Uvalde is just a symptom of a much bigger pathology. It is a symbol of the failure of every institution in our society. And the solution is never to revamp the institutions and eject the parasites heading them. It’s always – always – to take power from us and give it to the people who screwed up in the first place.
Show of hands – who was shocked to hear that this creep was on law enforcement’s radar before his killing spree?
I see a distinct lack of hands.
But the failure is not limited to being unable to stop murderers. It’s not even the only failure involving schools. The schools are churning out a generation of quasi-literates and have been turned into a Grindr for perverted weirdos to use for grooming their prey. We got a good view of the failure during another epic failure, the COVID response.
This is systemic.
Everything is failing.
Go try to get baby formula.
See if you can afford gas. Hell, roll up to a Mickey D’s drive-thru and try to roll away with lunch for four under $30.
The courts don’t work, the Congress doesn’t work, and our alleged president is a borderline clinical moron who is lying when he’s not merely stupid. This human sex toy got up at Annapolis and told the Naval Academy grads that he had been accepted there. It was a lie – of course, he’s senile so maybe he believed it – and the regime media skipped over it like they skip over everything else that offends the official narrative.
Failure, failure, failure.
What is one institution that works? Just one.
Or to put it another way, “does the Biden administration actually want to see middle-class Americans reduced to poverty and privation? Or is it just too stupid to foresee the obvious consequences of its own actions? At this point, I’m not even sure which is worse.”
THE GREENS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A COMMIE FIFTH COLUMN, RIGHT? Joel Kotkin: Green Rope-a-Dope: China Watches as America Greens. “Amid near-hysterical reporting about the climate, the U.S., and much of the West, is embracing willy-nilly policies likely to weaken our economy and boost China’s ascendancy at the expense of democracy and market economies.” They’re likely to do that because they’re designed to do that.
BORDER PATROL IS AN ENEMY OF THE LEFT, EVEN WHEN THEY’RE SAVING CHILDREN: Biden Uninvited Border Patrol Agents From Uvalde Speech.
VICTORIAN-ERA ORGASMS and the crisis of peer review.
More here: “The Technology of Orgasm by Rachel Maines is one of the most widely cited works on the history of sex and technology. . . . The success of Technology of Orgasm serves as a cautionary tale for how easily falsehoods can become embedded in the humanities.”
But peer review is the “gold standard!”
ON SUNDAY ON MY BLOG I DO A PROMO POST AND VIGNETTE CHALLENGE THING: Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
And yes, I do realize it’s Monday. I didn’t post last night, because I’d discovered a newly acquired food allergy. Don’t ask. No, truly. It’s way TMI. But I’m much better, if not totally recovered. And now I know.
WELL, WE CAN HOPE: Did HSBC Stuart Kirk Kill the Climate Investment Industry?
I’VE BEEN RELIABLY INFORMED* THAT ORGANIC MEANS POOP WAS INVOLVED: Hepatitis A outbreak linked to organic fresh strawberries: FDA.
*I mean, I knew it, of course, having grown up in Portugal, but I’m grateful to John Ringo for making that knowledge go wider in The Last Centurion. Which you absolutely should read if you haven’t.
HINT, IT’S NOT SOCIAL WORKERS: When the Rule of Law Fails: A Reprise Post.
DUDE NEEDS TO READ MORE SCIENCE FICTION; ALL THIS HAS BEEN COVERED: Milky Way galaxy has four ‘malicious’ alien civilizations that could attack Earth: researcher.
IN FAIRNESS, WASHINGTON POST EDITORS CLAIM LOTS OF CRAZY @#!$: Washington Post editor claims AR-15 was ‘invented for Nazi infantrymen’.
SURE. BECAUSE CRAZY PERSON, WE’RE NOT A GOOD COUNTRY. MAKES SENSE: Kapler To Skip National Anthem In Light Of Uvalde Tragedy.
In clown world.
THIS JUST IN: BIDEN ISN’T ABSOLUTE: Biden: 2nd Amendment Isn’t Absolute.
SURE BRANDON, MESS AROUND AND FIND OUT: Biden Says He Will “Do Something” While In Uvalde.
AS WE SHOULD: Remembering the fallen.
THE RIGHT ALL OTHER RIGHTS PROTECT: The right to be an a**hole.
And if you don’t think it’s important, you don’t understand the Bill of Rights at all.
AS IT SHOULD BE: West Virginia: Legally-Armed Woman Saves Lives By Shooting Would-be Mass Shooter.
And why constitutional carry is so important. A pack, not a herd.
THE THANK YOUS WERE FROM ACTORS DISPERSED IN THE CROWD: Joe Biden Receives Mixture of Boos, Jeers, and ‘Thank Yous’ During Visit to Uvalde.
No, I have no proof. Or even any reason to say that other than refusing to believe human beings can be that dumb, but would it shock you, really?