WEIRD, ONCE OBAMACARE PASSED I THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS GOING TO BE FIXED: 1 in 5 Americans say U.S. healthcare is in ‘a state of crisis.’
Archive for 2023
January 20, 2023
THE COMPANY LOOKS SERIOUSLY TOP-HEAVY TO ME: Big Layoffs Come to Progressive Online Media Conglomerate, Vox.
NOW DO CHURCH BURNINGS AND ATTACKS ON PREGNANCY CENTERS: FBI offers reward for leads in attacks on reproductive health facilities.
NO, IT’S JUST DIFFICULT: College math a ‘white, cisheteropatriarchal space,’ Vanderbilt professor says at major conference.
“Undergraduate Mathematics Education as a White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space and Opportunities for Structural Disruption to Advance Queer of Color Justice” was the full title of the lecture given by Luis Leyva, associate professor of mathematics education at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.
Leyva delivered the lecture Jan. 4 in Boston at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023. The summit is the “largest mathematics gathering in the world,” according to its website.
“Cisheteropatriarchal” is a term in ethnic studies referring to “a system of male, straight, conforming-to-assigned sex system power,” teacher and curriculum designer R. Tolteka Cuauhtin told the Los Angeles Times in a 2019 article.
Leyva’s “findings depict[ed] how Black, Latin*, and Asian QT [queer and transgender] students’ narratives of experience reflect forms of intersectionality, or instances of oppression and resistance,” according to his lecture’s abstract.
Just going by the numbers — and academia discriminating against them — it’s a safe bet the Asian students are doing just fine.
THIS MIGHT BE TRUE: Alec Baldwin Wouldn’t Be In Trouble Today if He Were a Conservative.
BDS IS ANTI-SEMITIC. REALLY ANTI-SEMITIC: This won’t surprise Instapundit readers, but The Lid’s Jeff Dunetz documents the fundamentally anti-semitic character underlying the Far Left’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that is aiming straight at the heart of Israel and indeed Jews everywhere.
WHERE WAS TOM? Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsak, that is, who was a chairman of the Biden Administration “whole-of-government” Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force formed to end the supply chain crisis in 2021. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and months of ensuing litigation were required to answer the question.
And, as it turns out, documents obtained by a new watchdog group, the Functional Government Initiative (FGI), indicate that Vilsak was present for exactly none of the task force’s meetings. Does this mean Vilsak can no longer be described as a government official who is outstanding in his field?
WHERE IT BELONGS: Joe Manchin’s West Virginia Approval is in the Toilet.
After selling out West Virginia energy workers by voting for President Joe Biden’s $800 billion “Inflation Reduction Act” in August, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has seen his approval rating plummet.
A new poll out this week shows things haven’t improved as time has passed, calling into question Manchin’s re-election chances in 2024.
While Manchin’s approval rating back home continues to suffer, the Senator spent time this week in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum.
He’s setting himself up for a lucrative post-Senate career.
MSM’S SANTOS OBSESSION EXPLAINED: If you are wondering why the Mainstream Media is so fixated on a guy like George Santos, who otherwise would just be another face in the crowd, Issues & Insights explains everything.
LET THEM EAT WINDMILLS: California’s Green Debacle. The Golden State’s energy policies impose ruinous costs on residents but make no measurable impact on global climate.
OF COURSE HE DOESN’T; THERE HAVE BEEN NO CONSEQUENCES: Joe Biden Has ‘No Regrets’ About Mishandling Classified Documents.
ANN COULTER: Why Plastic Is Good and Recycling Is Bad. We discuss the perverse campaign to ban plastic — a revival of medieval sumptuary laws imposed on commoners by the nobility — on her podcast.
DEAL OF THE DAY: TurboTax Deluxe 2022 Tax Software. #CommissionEarned
LOOKS PRETTY BAD: More ghastly news about teachers’ unions.. (Note that if you click through you can follow me on Twitter. Now that Musk is there, I’m getting to like it there.)
Jaw-dropping misconduct. Read this DFI report about how teachers’ unions negotiate collective bargaining agreements requiring school districts to infuse their curricula w/ leftist ideology & provide unconstitutional benefits to teachers based on race.https://t.co/PSIdmOljwC
— Gail Heriot (@GailHeriot) January 19, 2023
LAUGHINGWOLF: Preparedness Pays: Some Additional Thoughts On Weapons. “Let’s start with my top recommendations from buying your first firearm, and go from there. Honestly it doesn’t matter if it is your first or your one hundredth, you need to do a few things.”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Nearly 30 Florida colleges announce ban on anything that ‘compels belief in critical race theory.’
Predicted response: “Nobody compels students to believe in critical race theory, and it’s a good thing that they do because anti-racism.”
“POSSIBLE:” ANALYSIS: Biden Center scandal ignites interest in possible foreign influence at UPenn. “Between 2017 and 2019, UPenn received $61 million in gifts and contracts from China.”
I’M NOT SURPRISED: People Forced to ‘Go to Work.’ in the Metaverse Say It’s a Complete Nightmare.
“I am totally immersed in the metaverse, have a big headset on, and then I need to take off the Oculus, look on my phone for the two-factor authentication code that’s been sent to my phone, then memorize the number, put my headset back on, and try to key it in,” an employee at the tech-consulting firm Accenture, a major Meta funder that’s attempting to implement Oculus into the workspace, griped to Slate. “But when you take off the Oculus it automatically goes to sleep mode, and I was trying to navigate the back-and-forth.”
Also speaking to Slate, other workers attempting to get the job done in metaverse workspaces experienced similar woes.
“Between forgetting to charge headsets, operating system updates, new app installation/updates, logging into accounts, screensharing between desktop and headset,” David Stern, founder and CEO of the Slate Group’s Supporting Cast podcast platform, told Slate, “there’s just a lot that can go wrong.”
Workers also told Slate that there are some glaring accessibility issues, particularly for those with disabilities like motion sickness. And once someone actually gets into their digital workspace, the problems don’t end — even just figuring out basic social cues and conventions is apparently pretty difficult, and most of Slate’s sources seemed to agree that any merits of current VR work fail to outweigh the many reported downsides.
Facebook is spending up to $10 billion a year on this effort.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Professor Laurence Tribe is Shocked! Shocked!!
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Liberal Media Bias Is Alive and More Embarrassing Than Ever. “They sincerely feel that the public is buying what they’re selling when it comes to Biden. It actually comes off feeling like they’re giving a slow kid a gold star on a refrigerator chart simply for accomplishing a mundane daily task.”
IS THAT EVEN ALLOWED? Shock! LA Times prints story that admits California storms not caused by climate change.
NICE WORK, PROF. JACOBSON! Providence (RI) School District Backs Away From Segregated Teacher Event After Legal Insurrection Exposé.
It’s important that we stand up to bigotry.
WHEN BENEFICIARIES OF THREE YEARS OF WEALTH TRANSFERS FROM THE HAVE-NOTS TO THE HAVE ARE BEMOANING INEQUALITY, DON’T TAKE THEM AT THEIR WORD: Why 200 millionaires want higher taxes: Inequality is “eating our world alive.”
They could just write checks to their various national treasuries, or give some wealth away to people who need help.
THE SMART MONEY SAYS YES: Bob McManus: Is Kathy Hochul’s governorship already beyond redemption?