DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Holding the Far Left Accountable Week in Education.
Archive for 2023
June 4, 2023
THE SEQUEL TO THE PRODUCERS LOOKS LIT: Inspired by Hamilton, diverse docudrama based on survivor testimony is touring US.
The Times of Israel morphed into the Babylon Bee so slowly, I hardly even noticed.
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: North Korea elected to World Health Organization executive board.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I have two vaginas — one for my husband and one for my career.
SPACE: SpaceX launches more satellites, will attempt second launch Sunday. ” SpaceX launched more satellites into space on Sunday as the company continues to build out its Starlink constellation. The company launched 22 second-generation satellites into low-Earth orbit at 8:20 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. . . . In fact, the company is targeting 12:12 p.m. Sunday to launch a second mission which, if successful, will mark the first time SpaceX has launched two missions on the same day.”
READER FAVORITE: Hey Dude Wally Loafers. #CommissionEarned
LISTEN, SUG, DON’T FORGET TO SAY YOUR PRAYERS: Video: What would happen if a nuclear bomb was dropped on a UK city?
(Classical reference in headline.)
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Wyoming research faces allegations of falsification, animal abuse. “Extensive federally funded research undertaken at the University of Wyoming faces allegations of falsification and animal abuse conducted by a former employee who has since returned to China.”
HOW IT STARTED: San Francisco billboards warn tourists of “dirt cheap” fentanyl sold in open market.
—KTVU, April 4th, 2022.
How It’s Going: SF Travel launches $6M ad campaign with first-ever commercial, starring local talent.
—SFGate, Wednesday.
And while in San Francisco, be sure to visit nearby tony Marin County: Mile-long RV encampment in Marin Co. symbolizes growing housing crisis in Bay Area.
—ABC-7 News, Thursday.
Regarding that last item, As the great Thomas Sowell wrote in 2014, it’s “The Housing Price of Liberalism:” in action.
In this part of California, liberalism reigns supreme and “open space” is virtually a religion. What that lovely phrase means is that there are vast amounts of empty land where the law forbids anybody from building anything.
Anyone who has taken Economics 101 knows that preventing the supply from rising to meet the demand means that prices are going to rise. Housing is no exception.
Yet when my wife wrote in a local Palo Alto newspaper, many years ago, that preventing the building of housing would cause existing housing to become far too expensive for most people to afford it, she was deluged with more outraged letters than I get from readers of a nationally syndicated column.
What she said was treated as blasphemy against the religion of “open space” — and open space is just one of the wonderful things about the world envisioned by liberals that is ruinously expensive in the mundane world where the rest of us live.
As Sowell writes, “Much as many liberals like to put guilt trips on other people, they seldom seek out, much less acknowledge and take responsibility for, the bad consequences of their own actions.”
And speaking of “the housing price of liberalism:” San Francisco Homeowners Lose $260 Billion In Value.
ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Prof: ‘Nothing wrong with’ murder of Trump supporter from a ‘moral perspective.’
DEAL OF THE DAY: ZIONOR Swim Goggles, G1 Polarized Swimming Goggles Anti-fog. #CommissionEarned
DESANTIS RESPONDS TO HECKLER IN BEST WAY POSSIBLE:
As DeSantis talked about parents’ rights in education, a woman in the crowd yelled, “The right to health care, to their kid’s health care, you’re a f—— fascist.”
The Florida governor was in Lexington, South Carolina, to push parents to be more involved in what their kids learn in school, ensuring they are not being sexualized through books and classroom materials.
“We say gay!” The woman added as the crowd began to boo at the heckler’s comments.
In response, DeSantis said, “Yeah, well, thank you, thank you. We’re not going to let you impose an agenda on our kids. We’re going to stand up for our kids. We’re going to make sure to do it right.”
As the woman was escorted out of the rally, the crowd gave DeSantis a standing ovation.
“Those people like that in Florida are the people we beat every single day on policy,” DeSantis continued.” We do not let them win. We win all these battles. We’re not letting them indoctrinate our kids, not on our watch.”
This is the way.
This is really just a way to launder money to leftist climate and gender activist groups, of course.
THE AARP PRODUCTION OF THE ZAPRUDER FILM: Slippy Joe Strikes Again: A Frame-by-Frame Analysis of Biden’s Latest Fall.
And the Trunalimunumaprzure! goes on: Here’s video of Joe Biden bonking his head on Marine One.
PRETTY MUCH EVERY WESTERN GOVERNMENT USED COVID TO WAGE WAR AGAINST ITS CITIZENRY: Lots of secret COVID government skullduggery being unearthed in U.K. now, too. “Critics of lockdown had posts removed from social media. There is growing suspicion that social media firms used technology to stop the posts being promoted, circulated or widely shared after being flagged by the CDU or its counterpart in the Cabinet Office. Documents revealed under Freedom of Information (FoI) and data protection requests showed that the activities of prominent critics of the Government’s Covid policies were secretly monitored.”
We should hang a few, to encourage the others not to do this again. A sort of reverse-Byng.
WELL, IT’S THE NYT:
June 3, 2023
THE WOKE PEOPLE WON’T DEFINE WOKE, BECAUSE IF THEY DO EVERYONE WILL HATE IT:
https://twitter.com/xenophonrocks/status/1665187705708224512?s=42&t=BjJOEFpw2mIu9Pvww6utZQ
OPEN THREAD: What did you do today?
TOMORROW AT 12:12 PM ET. Watch SpaceX launch Dragon cargo mission to space station Sunday after one-day delay. Weather permitting.
A FAKE HOLIDAY THAT’S BETTER THAN FESTIVUS: Big Sandwich Night.
https://twitter.com/mhdksafa/status/1664474479475425280
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Scientists Hacked Human Cells to Make Insulin, And It Reversed Diabetes in Mice.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
@caughtcrazy Ok some things he say are questionable🤨🫠 #funny #joebiden #sleepyjoe #woke ♬ original sound – Crazy