WHAT FATHER’S DAY MEANS TO THE FATHERLESS: As a country, we still have much to do to remedy the crisis of fatherlessness that’s harming millions of young people.
Archive for 2022
June 19, 2022
READER FAVORITE: Fathers Day Gift- RAK Magnetic Pickup Tool. #CommissionEarned
THIS NEEDS AT LEAST TWO MORE ZEROES: University pays $30k in free speech lawsuit.
#JOURNALISM: Journalism professor suggests young reporters fabricate stories because of racism, high standards. The professor is “Dr. Ayleen Cabas-Mijares, who describers herself as a ‘Critical/Cultural and Feminist Media scholar’ in her Twitter biography.”
WHAT SPACEX DOES INSTEAD OF LETTING ITS EMPLOYEES YAMMER ABOUT “INCLUSION:” SpaceX launches and lands 3rd rocket in 36 hours.
HE’S JUST IN HECK RIGHT NOW. THE REAL HELL IS STILL COMING: White House Report Card: Pollster Zogby says Biden ‘in hell.’
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Why stocks, crypto, and home values are all plunging at once.
BILL OTIS ON THE RISE IN CRIME AND ITS EFFECT ON BLACK LIVES: “The Klan Was Never This Effective.“
DEAL OF THE DAY: Shine Armor Fortify Quick Coat ceramic car wax. #CommissionEarned
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Jan. 6 panel isn’t swaying these swing-state Republicans.
To be fair, that’s because it’s a transparent exercise in propaganda and hate.
How badly is the show trial going? This badly: NBC cuts to golf from Jan. 6 hearing coverage.
Related: Poll: More Americans say they would vote for Trump over Biden.
MIKE KERRIGAN: What I learned from my father about the prodigal son.
FLASHBACK: Abraham Lincoln’s remarkable physicality.
You will often hear about his great speeches, wonderful quotes, witty little anecdotes here and there. Or insights into his complex marriage. His mental health issues and how he overcame them and carried on in spite of personal hardships. But what is every bit as interesting, to me, was the man’s physicality. Lincoln’s very body was the stuff of legends.
Everything you will ever read of Abraham Lincoln will tell you he was a man of great contrasts. For instance, his height of 6′4″ was impressive, but his shoulders were narrow and his body slim. His hands and arms were exceptionally strong and his voice rather shrill for a man his size. In his youth he was a wrestler, as well as a day-laborer known to easily do the work of three men. “No man could drive a nail deeper,” his old boss would admiringly say.
In his army volunteer days he wrestled hundreds of men, never losing until a particularly tough man known as one of the finest wrestlers in the nation got the better of him. Lincoln graciously admitted defeat. All this is made more impressive if you realize that even at his heaviest, the future president never weighed more than 190 pounds and would dip well below that in later life. During the civil war, Lincoln was not in the finest health. He’d still visit hospitals to boost morale and shake hundreds of hands. A soldier asked him: “Mister president, are you not tired shaking so many hands?”
“Not at all,” said Lincoln, and proceeded to walk to the door near the hospitals exit where a heavy axe was located. He held the axe by the end of the handle with one hand and held it horizontally in front of him with his arm stretched for several minutes. He asked some of the people around if they could repeat the feat, and none could do so. He then walked out into the yard and cut some wood to keep the wounded men warm in the dead of winter. Hitting the trunks so vigorously splinters flew everywhere and were “collected by onlookers as trophies”.
After his death, doctors remarked Lincoln’s “remarkable musculature” and said he had “not an ounce of surplus flesh”.
Totally unrelated: President Joe Biden falls off of unmoving bicycle.
June 18, 2022
WELL, POLITICO: Politico wonders: How do we get inside the heads of the political elite? “Here’s a better question: Isn’t that exactly backwards? Politico rightly identifies the cause of the rise of populist movements on the Right and the Left as rejections of elitism, but crabs backward to the essential problem. The real problem is a disconnect between the governing class and the governed, and yet Ian Ward wonders how the governed can come to understand their elite overlords. . . . Over the last century, starting with Woodrow Wilson, the US has increasingly gravitated to elite, autocrat rule rather than self-governance. More power has accrued to Washington, and more of it has been passed to unaccountable agencies with unelected commissioners who issue rules nearly at whim. . . . As a result, much of the elite governing class aren’t even elected to office. Much of the regulation that governs us never came before Congress or any legislature, despite the constitutional order of self-governance through the House and Senate. Subsidiarity has largely vanished, and replaced with a star-chamberesque labyrinth of power in Washington.”
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NEVER UNDERESTIMATE JOE’S ABILITY TO, WELL, YOU KNOW: Biden races against time to unlock Ukraine’s trapped grain.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden’s America: Sriracha and Peanut Butter the Latest Items in Short Supply.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: The Navy is firing a lot of officers and saying almost nothing about it.
OPEN THREAD: I’m alright.
Maher stated, “If someone knows of a story that more effectively captures what’s wrong with today’s journalism than the sad saga of what happened last week at The Washington Post, they need to keep it to themselves. Because it would be too depressing.”
After recapping the story, Maher said, “The fact that The Post’s initial response was to punish, not Felicia, but one of their best reporters for a silly joke shows that the kindergarten is already in charge. Today, June 17, is the 50th anniversary of a very seminal event in American history. On this day in 1972, the Watergate break-in happened, and over the next two years, The Washington Post gave the world a masterclass in investigative journalism. I have to wonder how The Post’s newsroom of today would handle that story or how they’re currently handling any story. All this time blubber-tweeting over a retweet begs the question, don’t you have anything better to do? Aren’t you supposed to be reporters digging up stuff? Are there no more vital issues going on in America right now? This is why you’re not in charge. Because if someone named ‘Deep Throat’ called the paper today and wanted to meet in a parking garage, this crew of emotional hemophiliacs would have an anxiety attack and report it to HR that they didn’t feel safe.”
Heh, indeed.
If only there were some other way of handling uber-woke young staffers. If only.
AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Explosion at Chinese space launch center revealed by satellite imagery.
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OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Male blood donor turned away from clinic after he refused to answer whether he was pregnant.