Archive for 2025
July 3, 2025
PRIME EXCLUSIVE DEAL: Philips Sonicare ExpertClean 7500 Black. #CommissionEarned
NOT OUR BEST AND BRIGHTEST: Claire Shipman’s Political Faceplant.
NEWS FROM THE END-TIMES OF HIGHER EDUCATION: I learned today that my university (from which I have now resigned) confers a degree it calls “Doctor of Philosophy in Education for Social Justice.” A majority (18 out of 35) of the doctorates awarded by USD’s education school this year fell into this category.
This is a random sample (i.e. the first seven on the list) of the dissertation titles:
Black Parents’ Use of Educational Advocates: Disrupting Structural and Systemic Racism in Education
Culturally Affirming Independent School Board Governance (CAISBG): Narratives of Board Members of Color in K-12 Independent Schools
Restricted Access: Structural Gatekeeping and the Black Student Experience in Accounting Education
Ethnic Studies for Secondary Schooling: Collaborative Curricular Insights from a Working Collective
Challenging Dominant Ideologies: Transforming Teaching and Learning that Support Classroom Learning Environments of Latinx Students
Liberatory Love: Exploring Educators’ Perspectives in Alternative Education
Constructing Portraits of Elementary Teachers of Ethnic Studies: Examining the Narratives of Anti-Racist Educators in an Era of Common Core Curriculum and Instruction.
Most of the rest contain words like “antiracist,” “equity,” “equity-centered,” “racial reckoning,” or “radical.”
This sheds a bit of light on an ugly event that happened a couple of years ago. One of my organizations—Californians for Equal Rights Foundation—rented an auditorium at USD’s school of education for a Saturday conference held in the summertime. Long before the conference, we had a signed contract and were paying good money for the room and catering. This should have been a positive for the school as the building would have been otherwise quite empty. At the last minute—after speakers had been lined up and many tickets sold–the school curtly informed us we couldn’t have the room. The claim was the school needed it for some unspecified reason. My phone calls were not returned. I had to threaten to sue to get the university to find us a room at the business school. It was obvious at the time this was politically motivated.
Perhaps I was naïve to have expected better from USD. In any event, the school’s social justice doctorate program provides a bit of extra evidence of where the school of education was coming from.
Needless to say, Californians for Equal Rights Foundation holds its summer conferences elsewhere these days. USD need not tarnish its left-wing bona fides by allowing a conference sponsored by a non-profit group dedicated to opposing race discrimination to take place on its property. Fine.
RED-PILLED: Climate change influencer once chums with Greta Thunberg now calls the movement a ‘scam.’ “While her fans cheered her on, Biggers told Just the News that her beliefs in a ‘climate crisis’ took a toll on her mental health. That’s true of many young people. The most recent poll on the topic, published in the renowned medical journal The Lancet, surveyed over 15,000 people aged 16-25 in the U.S. about their thoughts and emotions about climate change. The poll found that 85% are moderately worried about climate change, and nearly 58% are very or extremely worried. Nearly 43% said it impacts their mental health.”
PROBABLY: Is Harvard’s Endowment a House of Cards?
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
● Shot: When will the #MeToo movement address pornography?
—Madeline Fry Schultz, the Washington Examiner, January 21st, 2020.
● Chaser: Democrats Should Become the Pro-Porn Party.
—Elie Mystal, the Nation, yesterday.
Taylor Lorenz approved, to boot (unexpectedly):
As John Podhoretz noted in an October 2018 GLoP podcast at Ricochet, at the height of the #MeToo cultural revolution and the left’s concomitant Kavanaugh hysterics:
So two years ago, yeah, everybody, everybody on the left was freaking out. Because Mike Pence said he wouldn’t go out to dinner with a woman who was not his wife. And now that would seem to be, that would seem to be exactly the kind of standard that would be necessary in order that that is the thing when people say, yeah, men shouldn’t be afraid. Now, men should be very afraid, the culture has changed, and they better behave well because they should be afraid, well, hewing to a standard according to which you only go out anywhere in public with your wife would fit entirely that model we live in a world in which you can make used and or you can be credibly accused of things. So you better only be in the company of your wife, right, say and, and this this is what we got from them two years ago about Pence.
So that’s why I say it’s situational. I think this is just classic liberal, leftist and Democratic you know, sort of all arms fire, anything that comes to hand you throw at the problem that you face, which is you don’t like the right, you don’t like its policies, you don’t like the vision of the country or the world that they’re going to portray and all bets are off and all arguments are merited and justified.
A decade ago, Salon wanted to nationalize TV news and Hollywood:
“Like [the late communist Pete] Seeger and the FDR cargo cult, Salon also harbors turn-the-clock-back fantasies of their own: Last month, the publication called for the nationalization of the news media because it was uncomfortable with the glut of right-leaning news and opinion led by — you guessed it! — Fox News. (Hmmm — I wonder if someone in the FCC read that article?) Now the Website wishes to turn the clock back on the film industry because of a perceived glut of independent films.”
Will Mystal and Zohran Mamdani attempt to seize the means of pornographic production and demand a nationalized Pornhub? Ladies and gentlemen (and all genders in-between), welcome onboard AmPorn!
THE ROCKET’S RED GLARE: Oakdale Fire Ignites Fireworks Warehouse, Upending Fourth of July Plans.
July 2, 2025
TRUE:
I’ll take Things We Already Knew for $500. https://t.co/gu83pDidOK
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) July 2, 2025
Now we need punishment, to discourage similar actions in the future.
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
WE’LL BE FIGHTING GIANT MARTIAN SPIDERS, WON’T WE? NASA’s Curiosity rover takes a closer look at ‘spiderwebs’ on Mars.
I’m sure that in 50 years Greta Thunberg will be protesting on their behalf.
LINUS PAULING SMILES: Common Vitamin Could Be The Secret to Younger-Looking Skin. “A new study has found that nourishment with vitamin C boosts epidermal thickness in lab-grown human skin models, and it does this by reactivating genes linked to cell growth. What’s more, vitamin C concentrations normally delivered to human skin via the bloodstream are sufficient to have a measurable effect.”
BARRETT WASN’T A DISSENT:
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley may just have written an even better dissent than Amy Coney Barrett. pic.twitter.com/33B1sX2yJO
— Dan O'Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) July 2, 2025
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: AI Detects Hidden Lung Tumors Doctors Miss — And It’s Fast.
READER FAVORITE: Orange Ninja 4-Stage Knife Sharpener. #CommissionEarned
WYLIE AND BALMER THOUGHT OF THIS NEARLY A CENTURY AGO: This Is Not the Way We Usually Imagine the World Will End: Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. “The researchers found that 0.5 percent of their simulations resulted in planets colliding or a planet being ejected from the solar system. And the world most likely to be affected in such a cataclysm? “Mercury is the most vulnerable planet by far,” Dr. Raymond said.”
I HOPE THIS IS PERFECTED BY THE TIME I’M TOO OLD TO DRIVE: Hands-Off Review: Ford BlueCruise 1.5 Is an Even Better Hands-Free Driving System.
UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Gay Comedian Scott Thompson: Eliminate GLAAD. “The ‘Kids in the Hall’ alum still saved plenty of venom for another target, one that’s unexpected given his political leanings.”
QUESTION ASKED:
Which of course begs the obvious question:
WHY would Christopher Wray lie about Chinese involvement in our election?
All the potential answers to that question are very, very bad. https://t.co/nySVHC5HqI
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) July 2, 2025
HMM: Is This How Mamdani REALLY Won the NYC Democrat Mayoral Primary? “Lazer claims Mamdani’s ‘rizz’ — a Gen Z term that’s short for charisma — helped earn him what his campaign couldn’t afford to buy. That, and cracking TikTok’s algorithm.”
Reminder: TikTok is social malware.
MADE IN THE USA: Grass Fed Colostrum Powder, Unflavored. #CommissionEarned
At first, the establishment was caught flat-footed by the internet. After being blindsided by Trump’s 2016 victory, it took analysts his entire term to recognize the seminal role that alternative media played in his victory – something that COVID and the associated increase in conservative institutional distrust served to underline.
In this light, the hypocrisy, lies and injustices of 2020 and the early Biden presidency can be seen as the ungraceful swan song of the 20th century television world. The concealing of the unmistakably violent nature of the Black Lives Matter riots, the spinning of narratives suggesting that anti-vaxers (a slur by any reasonable definition) were responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, and, of course, the brazen censorship of those with concerns about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election; never before and never since was the manipulation more apparent – and hopefully, given television’s continued decline, it never will be again.
President Trump’s persistence through that brief but intense dark age is a testament to how impotent it all was. Had January 6th occurred twenty-five years ago, it’s unlikely that the media-manufactured narrative of a violent putsch to establish a dictatorship would have been meaningfully contested. After years of baying for reprisals, vilifying those involved as un-American terrorists, and canonizing January 6th as the newest installment in America’s long series of historical black spots to be overcome, few bit. Nobody really ended up caring, and recent attempts to condemn the President as having spared terrorists their rightful fate are entertained only by those poor souls whose eyes and ears are still in thrall to what remains of network television. America is better for having largely abandoned television, and the results speak for themselves.
It was a gradual process: as viewers increasingly abandoned television news, television executives allowed their newsmen to abandon half of their potential audience of viewers. From Dan Rather cooking the books in September of 2004 to attack President Bush, to the entire DNC-MSM railing against “cheap fakes” twenty years later in an utterly futile attempt to protect their party’s (p)resident, TV news did everything it could to hasten its own demise.
IF ONLY THEY WEREN’T JEWS: Democrats No Longer Support Israel, and We Have the Receipts.
THEY’RE JUST DOING THE JOBS THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENT WON’T DO: Four more Portland Antifa riot suspects federally charged. “This brings the total federally charged so far to 17, devastating the numbers Antifa need to attack the building night after night. The cases are not being dropped immediately. Dozens of local Antifa riot cases have also not been dropped by the moderate district attorney, Nathan Vasquez. (Vasquez, running on a law and order platform, won against radical leftist incumbent Mike Schmidt in November last year.)”