Archive for 2023
February 21, 2023
REMEMBER FAHRENHEIT 451? TIME TO START MEMORIZING ECCLESIASTES, I GUESS: History is fluid and time is an illusion.
As in the old soviet union, the future is known. It is the past that keeps changing.
THE MONOCULTURE IS VERY MUCH A PROBLEM: The Power of Lies.
YEP. PRETTY MUCH PAR FOR THE COURSE THESE DAYS: Today’s blacklisted American: Georgetown Law School tried to destroy a student simply because he asked questions about its COVID jab and mask policies.
THE MONOCULTURE IS ALWAYS A PROBLEM: Ruling class gentry, er.. “elite” monoculture.
YEAH, BUT THAT WAS WHEN READERS WERE ASSUMED TO BE TRADITIONAL AND CONSERVATIVE: Remember when offending readers was a good thing?
MSNBC: TL/DR VERSION: THIS BROWN GAL NEEDS TO LEARN HER PLACE: Wajahat Ali claims Nikki Haley uses ‘brown skin to launder’ white supremacy.
WELL, THAT’S ONE INTERPRETATION: ‘First Roman dildo’ discovery shocks archaeologists: ‘Exciting and intriguing’.
There would seem to be obvious problems with a wooden dildo as opposed to say marble or jade or even ivory. Maybe it was indeed a dildo. Or maybe, you know, it was something else entirely.
RE-CHECK THE CALCULATIONS, THERE MUST BE SOME MISTAKE: Al Gore’s ‘eco-friendly’ investment firm owns shares in polluting companies: report.
February 20, 2023
ICYMI: THOUGHTS ON OUR RULING CLASS MONOCULTURE, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT, over at my Substack. With a request for further thoughts.
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@harmonyblake2 Obsessed 😂
Pretty sure it’s not a real school, though. At least, I couldn’t find it online.
LOL, A MASTER’S DEGREE.. PROBABLY IN EDUCATION. ALL BOW DOWN TO THIS INTELLECTUAL SUPERSTAR!
“I have a masters degree! What do the parents have? Are we vetting the background of parents?”
Crazy teacher gone wild hates parents. The scary part is she is not an anomaly, she’s the norm in public schools.pic.twitter.com/6Fl61kvPFz
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) February 19, 2023
The truth is, the parents have something no educational credential can match: Skin in the game. They’ll live with the consequences of their parenting decisions for the rest of their lives. The teacher will send this year’s kids off and replace them with next year’s kids, and will have no stake in — or even usually knowledge of — how those kids do later. There’s no comparison, and to pretend there is is moral idiocy at best.
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
OH, SNAP!
PLAGUES AND PESTILENCE: Uncovering the Elusive Origins of the Black Death.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Delusional Democrats think Fetterman and Feinstein still fit to serve. And Joe Biden.
“Once upon a time we mocked the Soviet Union for its gerontocracy. Aged party leaders, bundled up in overcoats and fur hats to the point of near-unrecognizability, would be wheeled out to sit, immobile, as parades passed or party congresses opened. Their withered, stale leadership was emblematic of the decaying USSR’s withered, stale ideology — and industrial base. But now the joke’s on us.”
And by “think,” I mean “pretend.”
FIELD MARSHAL WILLIAM SLIM, and India.
GOOD QUESTION! Why does it seem only sane people get canceled?
BIDEN HOT MIC: Asks Aides If Anyone ‘Bought Any of That Bulls**t.’
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The video turns out to be bogus. The story has been retracted.
PRODUCTIVITY PROBLEMS: Is ‘Shunning Technology’ Really the Main Villain? “A major technology initiative in healthcare of the the last decade or two has been the wide use of electronic medical records. While these do have considerable potential, the current implementation reality is different. I don’t think I have ever heard or read a physician or other healthcare professionals who had anything good to say about these systems. The perceived productivity impact is negative.”
Well, electronic records are software, and software is mostly crap. And subsequent versions often get clunkier and harder to use rather than easier.
SALENA ZITO ON ETHICAL SOURCING:
Both Savannah retail stores were bustling last week — the massive outlet attached to the production factory and the flagship store on the iconic cobblestone River Street. There is no shortage of consumers looking for apparel outside of brands like Nike, which often positions itself as a social justice apparel company.
Mr. Merritt said he decided early on — even when Nine Line was a garage operation — that the design and production of his apparel, as well as any other item they carry, would be done in America and that his hiring priority would go to military families.
He was also adamant that none of the fabric used in making Nine Line’s apparel would be unethically sourced: “Especially when it comes from any suppliers who were part of the slave trade in the Xinjiang region of China.”
Much of the world’s cotton comes from the Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China, a land long populated by the largely Muslim Uyghur ethnic group. The Chinese government has filled the region with forced-labor and “reeducation” camps meant to neutralize this historic minority. Many Western companies that tout their human rights and social justice street cred look the other way to out-bid competitors who don’t use cotton from this region.
Last June, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act went into effect, requiring companies to prove that imported goods originating from the Xinjiang were not made using forced labor.
Mr. Merritt said there’s a flaw in the law, which relies on companies to be truthful about their products’ origin: “They are making companies sign this piece of paper that says you did not bring in any Xinjiang cotton. You sign it, and that counts.”
One month ago, Mr. Merritt discovered through isotopic testing — sort of like doing a DNA test on fabric to detect the unique fingerprint of the country of origin — that one of his fabric suppliers had been using cotton from Xinjiang.
To say he was livid would be an understatement. Mr. Merritt walked over to the scores of pallets he has lined up with the tainted shirts, most of which had already been threaded with the Nine Line logo and a variety of designs — meaning huge amounts of sunk costs in time and work and money.
He climbed up on top one of the boxes and spread his arms wide at the stock on which he’ll never see a full return: “These are all going back.”
Read the whole thing.
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