50 YEARS OF FEMINIST PROGRESS, AND: One-Third of Teen Girls in U.S. Seriously Considered Attempting Suicide in 2021.
Related: Jonathan Haidt: Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest.
Archive for 2023
April 28, 2023
EDUCATION’S CONUNDRUM: Someone Has to Run the Fabs.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Female babysitter accused of raping 13-year-old boy, telling him to ‘take it like a man.’ “Kornegay then allegedly held a knife to the boy’s penis and threatened to cut it off if he told anyone about what happened.”
CAN YOU SAY “HYPERGAMY”, BOYS AND GIRLS? I knew that you could.
21ST CENTURY LOGISTICS: The Marines are getting supersized drones for battlefield resupply. “The big flying machines are designed to carry about 150 pounds and can fly at about 67 miles per hour.”
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: You’ll Facepalm at What He Did with the $5 Million He Stole. “This week we have an embezzlement scheme gone hilariously wrong, the bank robber in need of Google Maps, and the curious case of the Scotsman’s backseat.”
READER FAVORITE: Apple AirPods (2nd Generation). #CommissionEarned
HMM: Researchers Point to the Source of Serious Side Effects in Widely-Used Painkiller. “According to recent research, the safety issues surrounding the commonly used pain reliever, diclofenac, may be linked to a poorly understood drug-metabolizing enzyme. The expression of this enzyme can vary as much as 3,000 times from one individual to the next.”
IT’S NICE TO KNOW THAT SOMEBODY IS DOING WELL IN THE BIDEN ECONOMY: Hamptons Luxury-Home Prices Soar On ‘Very Strong’ Demand, Limited Inventory. “Luxury property transactions in the top 10% of the Hamptons housing market reached a median price of $8.54 million, an 11% increase compared to the previous year. The average price of the highest-end homes in the seaside playground for Wall Street’s billionaires jumped 33% to a record of $16.1 million.”
“NOBODY EVER GOT KNOCKED UP OR SHOT IN AN ONLINE SCHOOL,” as a friend told me when I was talking about the Insta-Daughter’s plans to go online: Pandemic sent high school sex to new low, survey finds.
On the other hand, I’d feel better about this if it didn’t also seem to signify a general loss of mojo and joie de vivre in today’s youth.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Elon Musk Drops the Hammer on Twitter Account Debuting Pedo Flag.
AS THE WORLD TURNS AGES: Demand for in-home healthcare outpaces availability of workers.
CHRISTOPHER FERGUSON: Uncomfortable History.
Rather than revealing the cultural chasm between indigenous people and Europeans, the historical record teaches us just how similar they were. Each vied for status and power, kept slaves, engaged in genocide against neighboring groups, mistreated women, indulged ethnocentrism, and so on. Tribes or confederations such as the Iroquois, Sioux, or Comanche were violent warrior cultures that recall the Spartans. This observation isn’t intended to denigrate Native Americans, it is simply evidence of our shared (if profoundly flawed) humanity.
What Europeans did to American Indians was often terrible, but Indians gave as good as they got, both to Europeans and each other. These stories are similar to those the world over—we are all equally capable of great horrors and cruelty and history provides few examples of morally unambiguous heroes. Embracing this universalist truth can help us to move past the morality tales so often told in the guise of history and discard a misbegotten and ultimately selfish indulgence in self-flagellation.
This has always been the problem with the Howard Zinn school of history. Zinn’s history of the US resembles a biography written by a bitter former spouse. In lieu of a nuanced and accurate historical account it offers a deliberate slander of our own culture. The result is at once self-indulgent and self-pitying. A balanced account must not flinch from examining our historical mistakes and misdeeds and those of others, but the modern approach to history has too often become a neurotic wallowing in half-truths of our own failures.
“Who controls the past controls the future,” Orwell warned. And when they rewrite the past with a neurotic self-loathing, you can guess the kind of future they have in store.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: White House Admits: Biden’s Age has Diminished His Energy, Limited His Schedule.
AND THIS IS WHY MSNBC EMPLOYS AL SHARPTON, DESPITE HIS NEGLIGIBLE RATINGS: Sharpton to CNN: You better explain why you fired “superb journalist” Don Lemon to me.
THEY’RE APPARATCHIKS NOW, AND APPARATCHIKS ARE ALWAYS BORING: Mark Judge: Reporting the snooze: When did journalists become so boring?
UNEXPECTEDLY: China ramps up coal power despite carbon neutral pledges. “Local governments in China approved more new coal power in the first three months of 2023 than in the whole of 2021, according to official documents.”
SORTING OUT THE ABORTION MYTHS AND FACTS: Getting past the pro-abortion myths to the facts about the lethal “reproductive healthcare” procedure can be daunting. But I’m up to the task, as evidenced by my latest PJ Media column.
TALES FROM THE SWAMPLAND: Nothing to See Here: Blinken Used Private Email Address to Keep in Touch with Hunter Biden.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Sony SRS-XG300 X-Series Wireless Portable-Bluetooth Party-Speaker. #CommissionEarned
THE COUNTRY IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Jerome Powell is the latest victim of Russian pranks.
Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, was deceived by pranksters posing as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in a video call in January.
The pranksters, identified as Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, are known supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The video clips, now circulating on the internet, show Jerome Powell discussing central banking and inflation, but no sensitive information was revealed during the conversation.
That’s a relief, I suppose.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, CULTURE OF HATE EDITION: Jewish advocacy group accuses CUNY system of rampant antisemitism.