Archive for 2023
March 17, 2023
HMM: Study finds loss of Menin helps drive the aging process, and dietary supplement can reverse it in mice. The headline is misleading, though: They didn’t feed them D-Serine, but administered gene therapy to produce more of it internally.
READER FAVORITE: Alimens & Gentle Men’s Button Down Regular Fit Long Sleeves. #CommissionEarned
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: The Naked Visitor from Another Earth. “This week we have the man who lost his shirt (and everything else), the curious case of the one-armed drummer, and Colorado Man going full Home Alone.”
READER FAVORITE: Philips Norelco Shaver 3800. #CommissionEarned
LESS PRENATAL CARE DUE TO COVID PRECAUTIONS? U.S. maternal death rate grew 38% in 2021, CDC data shows.
MARK JUDGE: How My 1997 Conversation with Tucker Carlson Predicted the Future. “Imagine the worst, most unscrupulous and malicious liar you’ve ever known in your life. That person is the reporter who just showed up at your door.”
CHUTZPAH: Hunter Biden Sues the Laptop Repairman.
OF COURSE THEY DO: Don Surber: Libs Want a Trump/DeSantis War.
EVERYTHING IS RACIST: Professor Denounces Cleanliness as Sexist and Racist.
There was a time when cleanliness was viewed as “next to godliness.” That clearly has changed. It is now apparently next to white supremacy. While it would be impossible to discuss all of the wacky scholarship being published today, Loyola (Chicago) Professor Jenna Drenten is a standout with a new theory that “cleanliness” is a “cultural gatekeeping mechanism” with “racist,” “sexist” and “classist” roots. It turns out that the sweet spice rack that your kid brought back from shop is actually a stratified, structural vehicle for white supremacy and male dominance . . . unless you keep it messy. Otherwise, you are pushing racist, sexist “pantry porn.”
Professor Drenten has struck out at a social media trend of posting videos showing off different ways to organize pantries. Where many see neatness, Drenten sees racism and sexism. She notes that these video creators, “predominantly white women,” have created “a new status symbol” to replace the old one of “nice houses,” “nice yards” and “nice neighborhoods.”
This, I guess, is why we can’t have nice things.
PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ! Update on Fetterman’s Health Leaves Doubts As His Mental Health Treatment Continues.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: For the first time, Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israel, poll finds.
FAKE MEAT IS FAKE FOOD: Common meat-free proteins may trigger soybean, peanut allergies, study says.
THEY CERTAINLY WERE WOKE AND… YOU KNOW THE REST: More On How SVB Screwed The Pooch. “Social Justice is bad enough by itself, but it’s also a marker for those incapable of thinking clearly enough to focus clearly on their main jobs.”
Like Byzantines, Americans have become snarky iconoclasts, more eager to tear down art and sculpture that they no longer have the talent to create.
Current woke dogma, obscure word fights, and sanctimonious cancel culture are as antithetical to the past generations of World War II as the last generation of Constantinople was to the former great eras of the emperors Constantine, Justinian, Heraclius, and Leo.The Byzantines never woke up in time to understand what they had become.
So far neither have Americans.
It’s VDH, so read the whole thing.
WELL, I’M GLAD WE FINALLY CLEARED THAT UP: So, not Russian disinfo? Hunter Biden’s legal team basically just confirmed that it was his laptop.
THE SINGULARITY IS HERE: GPT-4 Beats 90% Of Aspiring Lawyers On The Bar Exam.
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Pornhub Acquired By Canadian Private Equity Firm ‘Ethical Capital Partners.’
A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: New Student-Led ‘Red Guard’ Installed in Maine School District Causes Fury at Board Meeting.