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July 22, 2023
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: As abortion bans grow, colleges find answer to easy contraceptive access: vending machines. Anecdotally, based on what I hear from undergrads on my campus, people are a lot more careful about birth control than they were pre-Dobbs. Which is good, since a distressing number of them were relying on Plan B and the pull-out method before.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Shenzhou 16 astronauts complete 1st spacewalk (video).
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Barbie — The Greatest Lie Ever Told (Video).
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Blending In While Carrying Concealed.
WHAT “OPPENHEIMER” DOESN’T TELL YOU ABOUT ATOMIC BOMBS.
Flashback: The Unexpected Return of Duck and Cover.
JOHN NOLTE: Far-left CNBC’s ‘Ten Worst States’ – All Deep Red, Texas the ‘Worst.’
Something else this stupid survey appears to ignore is that the crime and pollution problems in these ten states are the exclusive problems of the Democrat-run cities in these states. Outside of these cities, life is idyllic, clean, and safe. I just spent a week in and drove through Indiana twice last month. It’s a beautiful state, stunningly beautiful and populated with farms, small towns, and nice people. The contrast to Illinois, where we also spent a week, is night and day, especially the cost of living.
Far-left CNBC is not measuring the quality of life. These liars are inventing categories that have nothing to do with our standard of living just so they can trash our way of life in Red America—which already is the Utopia leftists claim to want. Almost all the violence, hate crimes, pollution, and poverty can be found in the urban garbage piles where Democrats are in charge. Out here in MAGA Land, life is serene. People of all backgrounds live together in relative peace and harmony while enjoying safe and clean streets, water, and air.
Leftists, do not consider moving from your failing blue state to a red one. Pay attention – CNBC is correct; Texas and other red states are failed hellscapes that no one should enter. Trust the media, they are particularly correct on this issue.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Mass Panic As Jim Cramer Predicts Giant Bug Mutants Will Not Attack Earth Next Tuesday At 2:17 PM.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Amazon constructing new Florida satellite-processing facility.
At one point near the end of American Prometheus—the 2005 biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin detailing the physicist’s effort to create the atomic bomb and the effort of his political enemies to tar him as a Communist after the fact, and the book on which the film Oppenheimer is based—the authors highlight Oppie’s annoyance with a popular play that closed with a monologue announcing his feelings of guilt about the creation, and deployment, of the atomic bomb.
“Such melodrama somehow cheapened the character of his ordeal,” Kai and Sherwin write. “In short, he thought the script poor drama precisely because it lacked ambiguity.”
I have no idea what Oppenheimer would make of Oppenheimer, but it is decidedly ambiguous in its treatment of two of the great moral quandaries of midcentury America: the development and deployment of the atomic bomb, and the maniacal effort to root out Communist infiltration (or “infiltration”) of America’s political, social, and educational classes. Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) himself rests at the intersection of these two tempests, and it is through him that this storm will rage.
Read the whole thing.
NOW OUT: From Christopher F. Rufo, America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. #CommissionEarned
THEIR PERFORMANCE IN THE LAST ONE DOESN’T BUILD CONFIDENCE: Biden administration creates new preparedness office for future pandemics.
RIDICULE IS MAN’S MOST IMPORTANT WEAPON: Small acts of rebellion by the young are a good sign.
Titled “Attack Helicopters and White Supremacy: Interesting Malicious Responses to an Online Questionnaire about Transgender Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Student Experiences,” the paper reported on “individuals exercising discursive power in their language to target researchers and tamper with data.”
The authors wrote that the “backlash” to the project “reflects characteristics of contemporary far-right or fascist political movements in the U.S., such as the synthesis of antisemitism with anti-Black and anti-feminist rhetorics.”
About 25 percent of the “malicious responses” provided some airplane-related response to gender, including several who specifically identified as an “Apache helicopter.” Identifying as an “attack helicopter” is a meme that goes back to at least 2014.
Other responses included a “V-22 Osprey” and a “F-16 fighter jet.”
Some gender responses appeared to express frustration with the survey, such as “homophobic biggot, yes we exist,” “Cis gender lizard king,” and “F*cking white male.”
Other mocking answers were much more detailed, with responses to the gender prompt that included “Quasi-Demi-poney; bankai-released state queercopter with a hint of faggotdrag lesbian and homosexual upside-down Frappuccino cake” and “on-cookie-cutter cis-furry dragonkin. Don’t judge.”
Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.™
MARK FELTON: Panther Pillboxes 1945 — German Last-Ditch Tanks in Berlin (Video).
LISA SCHIFFREN: Welcome to the ‘Climate’ Nut House.
Like everyone, we at The Pipeline have our moods. So when we stumbled across the recent “Therapy Issue” of New Yorker Magazine we were intrigued enough to see what they had to say about things. After all, given the unhappy realities of America’s elite, liberal culture, and the depression, anxiety, and isolation that has been so widely reported since the Covid lockdowns, maybe they knew something we don’t.
And, indeed, in one particular article we learned that there is a whole new category of mental illness stalking young people in particular, leading to despair, loneliness, and a sense of impending mortality. Its title: “What To Do With Climate Emotions?: “If the goal is to insure [sic] that the planet remains habitable, what is the right degree of panic, and how do you bear it?” It turns out, according to author Jia Tolentino, that the highly ideological “climate change” narrative has taken a serious toll on them, plunging them into a deep depression over the putative impending death of our planet.
Well, when the toxic media push enough hysteria, vulnerable individuals will be affected.
IT CAN’T BE A CIVIC VIRTUE IF IT HURTS DEMOCRATS: The Media Loved Whistleblowers. Until They Were Blowing the Whistle on Joe Biden.
DEAL OF THE DAY: True Classic Tees Premium Fitted Men’s T-Shirts. #CommissionEarned
CHARLES COOKE: Kamala Harris Is Brazenly Lying about Florida’s Slavery Curriculum.
NBC reports that Kamala Harris intends to visit Florida today to criticize its new school curriculum:
In remarks Thursday, Harris blasted efforts in some states to ban books and “push forward revisionist history.”
“Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery,” she said at a convention for the traditionally Black sorority Delta Sigma Theta Inc. “They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.”
This is a brazen lie. It’s an astonishing lie. It’s an evil lie. It is so untrue — so deliberately and cynically misleading — that, in a sensible political culture, Harris would be obligated to issue an apology. Instead, NBC confirms that she will repeat the lie today during a speech in Jacksonville.
I have been trying to work out how best to illustrate the sheer scale of Harris’s falsehood, and I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way to achieve it is to list in one place all the relevant parts of the course about which she is complaining. So, below, I have copied and pasted every single reference to slavery, slaves, abolitionism, civil rights, and African Americans that is in the document. For those interested, the full curriculum (along with the curriculum for the teaching of the Holocaust) is here.
Exit quote: “The list is extremely long. That’s because, pace Harris, there’s a lot in there.”
FLEETWOOD MAC COULD REUNITE WITH LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM FOR ONE LAST REUNION TOUR:
The Eagles are getting ready to embark on one, Aerosmith and KISS are also eyeing the end of their touring days. Elton John just wrapped his last go round. Paul Simon has already dotted his i’s and crossed his t’s.
Now I’m hearing that Fleetwood Mac may be next. There is even talk, sources say per Mick Fleetwood, of reuniting with Lindsey Buckingham, who was fired from the group a couple of years ago. But with the passing of Christine McVie, it makes sense to get Buckingham back in the fold. He and Stevie Nicks can fight once the tour is over and they’re in nursing homes, frankly.
Also let’s not forget. John McVie retired from touring. Fleetwood Mac now would just be Mick and Stevie. They need Lindsay Buckingham, writer of many of their hits, to get on board.
As Steven Hyden wrote in his 2018 book, Twilight of the Gods, for classic rock, the brand is everything. Getting Buckingham back into the mix is the easiest way for Fleetwood Mac to simulate its classic lineup, even if one McVie is dead, and the other one is no longer touring.
THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY: Less than half of parents feel ready to pay for their child’s college education.