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July 19, 2022
RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: An Open Letter to Alan Dershowitz. “You have recently been experiencing the vitriol of the left and cancel culture in your home of Martha’s Vineyard, and it is profoundly sad that you are being degraded by your local community members. But if we are honest, you should not be surprised by this development. As long as you were a champion for their causes, you were a celebrity. But you are now realizing what many of us ‘former Democrats’ have sadly already experienced in recent years: the Democratic party is currently controlled by an extremist faction that not only allows but encourages behavior that is disgusting and repulsive to any human being of ethics.”
MORE ON THE LATEST FROM THE UNIFORM LAWS COMMISSION: Direct Wine Shipping Comes Under Fire. “Wine wholesalers won a battle in their fight against US wine lovers on Wednesday, as the Uniform Law Commission passed a model Alcohol Direct-Shipping Compliance Act that could make shipping wine more difficult and expensive.”
Related: The Uniform Law Commission Has Made Lives Easier for All of Us.
Plus: Who is the Uniform Law Commission, and What’s Up with Their DTC Proposal?
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? He makes more than the President and his wife makes more than the Vice-President. Both work for NIH.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Dem Staffers Unionize, Citing Poor Pay and Pervasive Sexual Harassment.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Shower Head with Extension Arm. #CommissionEarned
A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: Colorado report outlines pandemic impacts on students heading to college. “The rate at which Colorado students are going to college right out of high school has dipped, and those who do go are less prepared.”
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: The Babylon Bee interviews John Cleese (video).
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Gender activists push to bar anthropologists from identifying human remains as ‘male’ or ‘female’: Argue scientists cannot know how an ancient individual identified themselves.
Don’t listen to them. They’re idiots.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Yeah, Rachel Levine Is Totally Coming for Your Kids. “Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine’s desire to ’empower’ kids to permanently alter their bodies is the big crazy on Insanity Wrap, an entire week’s worth of lefty nuttiness wrapped up in one easy-to-swallow medicated news capsule.”
Plus:
- Let’s talk dirty about clean solar
- Another Babylon Bee prophecy made real
- Welcome to Biden Falls, Delaware
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL: Goldman CEO David Solomon says inflation is ‘deeply entrenched’ in the global economy.
“I think the lack of specificity about the temporal cadence that was implied by that word led to a level of ambiguity that that wasn’t serving the debate very well.”
We have nothing to fear but specificity about temporal cadence.
AND EVERYONE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER, HAVING LEARNED NEVER TO DO THIS AGAIN. RIGHT? RIGHT…? DHS formally shuts down Disinformation Governance Board.
WHY OUR CRAPPY JOURNALISTS ARE ACTUALLY DANGEROUS TO SOCIETY:
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Please, Idiot Blue State Dems, Bring Back Draconian COVID Protocols. “What if their COVID fetish turns out to be a huge assist for the Republicans?”
HMM: China has an unemployment problem. Why nearly 20 percent of young job-seekers can’t land a job.
Dissatisfaction among the young generation in China has spiked recently, and it’s not hard to see why. Chinese students face intense competition at school and at universities — and lately they have also spent stretches of time in strict covid lockdowns, many stuck in tight dorm rooms. Worse, perhaps: The payoff is increasingly elusive — it has become harder and harder to find a job.
New data released on Saturday by China’s National Bureau of Statistics shows that youth unemployment hit 19.3 percent in June. It’s the highest level since the data was first made public four years ago; back then, the figure was as low as 9.6 percent.
Previously: China working-age population shrinks, presenting pitfall for pension plans.
A shrinking workforce and high youth unemployment don’t say anything good about good about the true condition of China’s economy.
INSANITY WRAP UPDATE: Last month at the PJM Mothership, Steve spotted this item: This Is Not a Sane World, Exhibit #1,000,006.
Wye Hill Kitchen & Brewing — which bills itself as “righteously good chef-driven bar food” — is the restaurant that canceled Moms 4 Liberty’s reservation.
I’m guessing they’re getting some blowback because Wye Hill’s Twitter account has been locked down.
But the worst part is “Katherine 4 Justice” and the smug superiority she feels for her despicable actions.
Wye Hill Twitter’s account is still locked down, but yesterday, North Carolina blogger A.P. Dillion spotted a much better outcome for Moms4Liberty:
INFORM, ENCOURAGE, ENGAGE: Californians for Equal Rights Foundation proudly presents our first ever Annual Conference: Fighting Preferences and Indoctrination in Education. If you’re going to be in Southern California on Saturday, September 3, come join us. Speakers include Williamson Ever, Wen Fa, Rick Sander, Eli Steele, and me. Early Bird registration is $50 for this day-long event and includes breakfast and lunch.
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S JUST BECAUSE THEY LIE CONSTANTLY, AND ALSO AREN’T VERY GOOD AT WHAT THEY DO: Confidence in media at all-time low, 11% for TV news.
THE AMY WAX SAGA: Professor Wax stands accused of making minority students feel bad. Alas, a lot of what she has to say is simply the obvious and true: Minority students who receive preferential treatment in admissions (or any students who receive preferential treatment) will, on average, do less well than students who weren’t given preferential treatment. Duh. That’s why schools established admissions standards in the first place.
Penn law dean Ted Ruger is seeking to impose a “major sanction” on Wax. In fact, he been trying to get her to resign for a while now.
Yesterday, the Academic Freedom Alliance (of which I am a founding member) sent a letter defending Professor Wax.
This story continues to develop.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PROGRESS:
Shot: Richard Porter, Top Gear/The Grand Tour script editor on shooting the pilot episode for the BBC’s rebooted Top Gear in 2002:
A BBC safety person said it was dangerous to have cars with petrol in the tanks inside a building under hot studio lights. We successfully argued that heat doesn’t normally make cars explode, otherwise an Arizona summer would look like the set of a Michael Bay film. Also, it seemed that the most dangerous thing to do with petrol was to siphon it out of cars and leave it lying around in cans at the back of the building, just near the place where people went to smoke.
—From Porter’s 2015 history of Top Gear, And On That Bombshell.
Chaser: Recent Surge in Car-Fire Recalls Frustrates Drivers:
Sean Nemeth, the owner of a plug-in hybrid Chrysler Pacifica, was perplexed when earlier this year he received a rather surprising recall notice, advising him to park his vehicle outside and away from structures.
The notice informed him that his particular model is at risk of catching fire—even while stationary and turned off—and the cause is still unknown.
“What am I supposed to do with it then?” said Mr. Nemeth, recalling his reaction at the time. He eventually decided to park it across the street from his house in a low-traffic cul-de-sac.
His predicament has become more commonplace in recent years with the expansion of electric-vehicle sales and more car companies confronting incidents of parked cars suddenly bursting into flames, including those involving more-traditional gas-engine models such as the Ford Expedition.
As a precaution, auto makers are issuing “park outside” orders that instruct drivers to park in the open air and away from houses and structures that could be potentially damaged if a fire were to occur. In many cases, the remedy isn’t immediately available, leaving drivers to figure out what to do with the vehicle in the interim—sometimes for months.
At least 31 recall campaigns covering 3.3 million vehicles have been launched with park-outside orders in the past decade, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The majority of those—18 campaigns, or about 60%—occurred within the past two years, NHTSA’s data show.
“It’s unusual to see several ‘park outside’ recalls in a row,” said William Wallace, associate director of safety policy at the nonprofit advocacy organization Consumer Reports. “But if there’s a fire risk, this is exactly the kind of guidance that people should get until a fix is available.”
The rise in these incidents is in part caused by problems that have emerged with some new batteries as the auto industry’s reliance on a still-maturing supply for the technology has grown, according to vehicle-safety advocates.
—The Wall Street Journal, Monday.
IT IS UNWISE TO ASK DIFFICULT QUESTIONS, COMRADE: If the 2020 Election Was So Secure, How Come We Keeping Discovering Irregularities?
READER FAVORITE: Mini Pocket Binoculars. #CommissionEarned