Archive for 2022

OPEN THREAD: Call on Me. Life was better in 2004 in many ways.

GOOD: National School Board Association ‘at risk of total collapse.’ After trying to sic the FBI on parents, it needs to be destroyed as an example to other organizations.

The proper White House response to this absurd letter from the NSBA would have been silence. A handful of threats and arrests at school board meetings (including the arrest of one parent who was angry that activists were discounting the rape of his daughter) do not justify a nationwide reaction from the FBI. Instead, the DOJ issued their own memo planning a nationwide coordination with school boards, one that was clearly intended to put a chilling effect on lawful parent protests.

The NSBA apologized for the letter and they are now paying a a heavy price for sending it in the first place. Unfortunately, the White House has not apologized for soliciting the letter or for taking it seriously when it arrived. The Biden administration should also pay a heavy price for their involvement in this shambles and I suspect they will this November.

Examples need to be made all around.

CULTURAL CONTAGION: China’s Sissy Problem—and Ours. “It’s important to make clear that this piece is not an attack on homosexual men; it’s an attack on sissies. There is a difference between the two. In his latest special, Sorry, Louis CK finished the show with a joke about American men. Today, according to Louis, gay men carry themselves with an air of authority, purpose, and meaning. They keep themselves in good shape and dress appropriately. Straight men, on the other hand, have become notably weaker, both physically and mentally; many of them lack the characteristics that we would have associated with previous generations of men. They are sloppy, weak-willed, and overly apologetic. They dress terribly. At the end of the joke, which is much funnier than I just made it sound, the audience applauded and let out a collective roar. Why? Because Louis’s joke resonated.”

LIVING THE MISERABLE LIFE in Woke Silicon Valley. “It’s utterly surreal to watch the deterioration. To see how quickly an organization can crumble.”

THE WORST IS YET TO COME AND IT WON’T BE FINE: 2022 Will Break Joe Biden.’ “Undaunted by political reality, Biden and his coterie of hardcore leftists decided to affect radical changes without having even a Senate majority. It might be the biggest — not to mention the fastest — presidential self-own in this century. Biden’s epic failures are the albatross he hung around his own neck.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Army readies to deliver first set of Strykers with 50-kilowatt laser weapons. “The Army has dubbed its Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense system ‘Guardian.’ After testing its first prototype last spring at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, against one-, two-, and three-class unmanned aircraft systems and rockets, artillery and mortars, the service is planning to conduct more tests this month.”