Archive for 2024

IF ENOUGH PEOPLE NOTICE, THE PARASITE CLASS IS DOOMED. HE MUST BE STOPPED!

EVERY JOT AND TITTLE: What prompted the journey of Rosaria Butterfield, former tenured Syracuse University English Literature and Women’s Studies professor, from Lesbian activist and angry atheist to happily married mother, grandmother and Christian?

Whatever you think about where she ended up, you’ve got to admit the country would be in far better shape if more lefty academics embarked on the same journey to leave totalitarian activism behind.

THAT’S A BOLD TAKE, FRUM. LET’S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF: Trump Should Never Have Had This Platform.

Most lefties have moved past denial and are well into anger or even bargaining. But not David Frum.

ANY HYPED “HATE CRIME” IS NOW PRESUMPTIVELY FALSE: What If the Most Notorious Murder of a Gay Man Wasn’t a Hate Crime? “Was the story we heard true? And what would it mean if Matthew Shepard wasn’t murdered for being gay, but rather for something more common—though equally as tragic? And why, when some investigative journalists discovered a more complicated truth, did so many people refuse to believe it? . . . A cynic might note that a great deal of money has been invested in the Matthew Shepard story. And, as it turns out, the truth of the Shepard murder is indeed more complicated—and less politically palatable—than a story about a gay boy beaten to death by a couple of homophobic thugs.”

The cynics aren’t always right. But that’s the way to bet.

EUGENE VOLOKH: Sad Thoughts About American Politics. “One way of thinking about this is to imagine this happening in a foreign country. Imagine that, unexpectedly, we Americans started to pay attention to an election campaign in some other nation. In that campaign, an 81-year-old incumbent who was obviously entering cognitive decline was squaring an off against a 78-year-old candidate who had been convicted of crimes, was being tried for other crimes, and who at the very least behaved highly un-Presidentially in response to a prior electoral defeat. Would we think that the foreign country had healthy political institutions?”

THESE ARE THE TIMES WE LIVE IN. A FRIEND SENT ME THIS BECAUSE IT WAS FUNNY, AND I WONDERED IF IT WAS A NEW MOVIE FROM NETFLIX:  A quickie from Her Maj.

POVERTY IS THE DEFAULT STATE OF MANKIND. IF YOU DESTROY CIVILIZATION, YOU DON’T GET EDEN, YOU GET SH*THOLES:  The elemental foe.