THOSE WHO WERE UNWILLING TO DISPENSE COMPASSION NOW DEMAND IT:
But the “experts” need to be taught a lesson, lest they do more damage through their arrogance.
Related: The Suicide of Expertise.
Archive for 2022
November 1, 2022
WELCOME TO ZUCKERBERG’S METAVERSE: Meta Quest Pro review: For those with more money than sense.
START THE HOLIDAYS EARLY: Kitchener Meat Slicer. #CommissionEarned
LOCKDOWN FALLOUT: ‘Shades of badness’ in math, reading scores. “The longer urban schools stayed closed the worse their fourth-graders are doing in math, concludes an analysis of National Assessment of Educational Progress NAEP) data.
There’s little evidence that keeping schools closed saved lives, writes Thompson. “Schools remained open in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy in late 2020 and early 2021,” because policy makers relied on “reports that schoolchildren did not play a major role in community transmission.” In addition, “evidence from Ireland, Singapore, Norway, Israel, South Korea, and North Carolina” showed that “young children were less likely than adults to get severely sick from COVID.”
There’s a media push to minimize the NAEP results. After all, writes David Wallace-Wells in the New York Times, what’s a few points after a worldwide pandemic? He worries Democratic politicians will be blamed for extending school closures.
Jay Caspian Kang, writing in The New Yorker, also wants parents to calm down and lower their expectations. Parents’ anxiety has been stoked by “the constant stream of stories about falling ACT and SAT scores, learning loss, and a generation of children who, absent some large-scale intervention, may fall well short of expectations.” But, don’t worry, because affluent, white students also did worse. And you wouldn’t want Democrats might get the blame, would you?
Related: Are You Ready to Forgive and Forget for the Damage Done by COVID Lockdowns?
DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Only 4 Republican professors found in several U. Oklahoma humanities departments: survey. Compared to 54 Democrats.
BRING IN THE COVERUP SQUAD! Scandal-Ridden San Francisco FBI Field Office Involved in Pelosi Investigation.
Related: Majority see FBI as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo’ after Trump raid.
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: The Morning After Election Day, Who or What Will Democrats Blame for the Shellacking? “Right now, I’m seeing the left put two excuses out there to ripen; voter oppression and scary guys (probably feds) in tactical vests watching ballot boxes.”
BAD FAITH AND STONEWALLING IS NO WAY TO RUN A UNIVERSITY, SON: University charges Campus Reform $357,400 to conduct public record request.
But hey, now we know they have something to hide. “The request sought communication records between just two individuals over the course of 7 months.”
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! The progressive Washington State Supreme Court has issued a ruling that effectively gives black plaintiffs a racial advantage in lawsuits against whites.
MALONEY HIT WITH NEW PERSONNEL SCANDAL: This is getting to be something of a regular occurrence with Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
The Washington Free Beacon’s Collin Anderson reports that Maloney provided a tax-funded staff job to a long-time friend of the New York representative’s husband:
“Maloney from September 2019 to July 2020 employed Hollywood journalist Kevin Sessums in his official office, according to House disbursement disclosures. On Facebook, Sessums has repeatedly boasted of knowing Maloney and his husband, Randy Florke, ‘for 30 years,’ and Sessums regularly refers to Florke as ‘an old friend.’
“It’s unclear exactly what Sessums did in Maloney’s office—the Democrat’s spending records merely list Sessums as a ‘staff’ member and offer no specific title—but Sessums almost certainly did not work for Maloney full time. That’s because he worked as editor-in-chief of his own entertainment magazine—sessumsMagazine.com—during his entire time in Maloney’s office, according to his LinkedIn, which does not mention his work for Maloney.”
WELCOME TO HOTEL CHINAFORNIA: Shanghai Disney shuts over Covid, visitors unable to leave. “The Shanghai government said on its official WeChat account the park was barring people from entering or exiting and that all visitors inside the site would need to await the results of their tests before they could leave.”
However many people around the world were still thinking of visiting Communist China, there must be fewer now.
Related: How Xi sacrificed China’s future in pursuit of total power.
UH OH, I’M SURE THEY WERE TRYING TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE MIDTERMS: U.S. Media Awakens to Nation’s Looming Diesel Fuel Crisis: Wait until press discovers the root cause of the shortage is rabid fossil-fuel hate based on Franken-science it peddles.
They’re not going to report that part because shut up.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: One Week Left for Desperate Democrats to Burn It All Down. “What this all means is that the Democrats are uneasy. And when they feel even the slightest bit of panic, they tend to act out. I doubt that they have any big November surprise waiting to be sprung on an unsuspecting electorate. They put all their chips in on abortion during the summer and the bet didn’t pay off.”
CHOKING OFF THE ECONOMY, BY DESIGN: Biden federal regulations surge over 45% in victory for ‘swamp.’
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY, CHAIRMAN XI: Foxconn workers in China flee, Shanghai Disneyland closes. “Over the weekend, thousands of Foxconn workers in central China fled the facility following a COVID-19 outbreak. The workers said they feared being trapped in close working conditions with sick people and little food or medical treatment. Under China’s ‘Zero COVID’ policy, entire cities could be locked down, and residents forced to stay in their homes. Fearing a similar response, thousands of people at the Foxconn factory decided it was time to go.”
Many of our technocrats would adopt similar policies here if they could, even now.
THAT WHOLE WAR-ON-PARENTS THING MIGHT HAVE BEEN A MISTAKE: America’s parents are revolting: They are fed up with schools indoctrinating their children. And now they’re fighting back.
TODAY IS ELECTION DAY IN ISRAEL: And the Israeli political system is among the most complicated in the world. Never fear, as The Lid’s Jeff Dunetz understands the Israeli process better than a lot of Israelis. He explains all here.
WILL AOC STAGE A CRYING PHOTO-OP? Report: Biden considering holding Haitian migrants at Guantanamo Bay.
ARIZONA LIBERTARIAN MARC VICTOR drops out of Arizona Senate race. “I’m guessing he read the tea leaves…or realized what a disservice to the state he was doing.”
You don’t advance the cause of liberty by electing Democrats these days.
UPDATE: Huh, the link is good but there’s nothing there now. I guess Hot Air took it down for some reason. Here’s another story: Arizona Senate race: Libertarian candidate drops out, endorses Blake Masters.
SOD OFF, SWAMPY: Mandela Barnes: ‘Oil Is Destroying the World.’
Leftism has done far more harm to people, and to the planet, than oil.
OBVIOUSLY, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN’T BE TRUSTED WITH FIREARMS: “Thousands” of guns, gun parts stolen from ATF. “It seems they suck more at their jobs than we thought.”
DEAL OF THE DAY: Comfort Colors Men’s Adult Short Sleeve Pocket Tee. #CommissionEarned