Archive for 2018
March 18, 2018
From the comments: “And he would not speak this way to a Muslim, it probably goes without saying.”
GIRLS WILL BE BOYS, AND BOYS WILL BE GIRLS. IT’S A MIXED-UP, MUDDLED-UP, SHOOK-UP WORLD, EXCEPT FOR LOLA.
● Feminists ‘self-identify’ as males… to infiltrate men-only swim session.
● “A man with a violent criminal record is suing a battered women’s shelter for refusing to take him in…after getting drunk and becoming belligerent. So he went to a battered women’s shelter and demanded entry, claiming he identified as a woman. The battered women’s shelter is a faith based organization and it denied him entry. The man, you should know, does not appear to have taken steps to legally change his name nor to have surgery to conform to his supposed gender identity.”
● “Look, either we all agree that there’s such a thing as consensus reality, or we don’t. If you can change your sex just by saying so, you should be able to change your race too. If you guys expect me to accept Caitlyn Jenner, then I expect you to accept Rachel Dolezal. She’s a strong, beautiful black woman. And you can be one too.”
● “Last week, a U.S. District judge named George L. Russell III declared that the local high school in St. Michaels is violating the rights of a student named Max Brennan, who was born a girl but has decided he is a boy. (Like the parties to the case, judge, defendant, and plaintiff, we’ll refer to Max as a boy, for courtesy’s sake.) When Max told school authorities about his decision, they did what they could to accommodate him, calling him by his new name and referring to him with masculine pronouns. On Max’s behalf, they even subjected school staff to a ‘professional development workshop’ on the subject of transgender students. Max wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to use the boys’ locker room when changing clothes for gym class and showering afterwards. The school administration offered him instead the use of a ‘gender-neutral’ restroom where he could change, and gym teachers allowed him additional time to get to class. Max says he has been ‘generally accepted and recognized as male’ by his classmates. But when he used the restrooms to change clothes, he reported receiving ‘weird looks.’ A gay rights activist group called FreeState Justice volunteered to take the school district to court. Judge Russell agreed that not allowing Max full use of the locker room ‘harms his health and well-being.’ Max now has the right to shower with the boys, while the case continues its way through the courts. Doubtless some parents in St. Michaels are wondering why, all of a sudden, the law requires their sons to shower with a girl, just because the girl says she is a boy. They join many parents around the country under similar circumstances who are wondering the same thing. This is where [Ryan T. Anderson’s new book], When Harry Became Sally will come in handy.”
Finally, it’s may be behind the Commentary subscriber paywall, but if you have access to it, Sohrab Ahmari’s new article, “The Disappearance of Desire: The transgender movement’s missing element,” is a fascinating deep-dive read.
I GOT NUTHIN’: D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by ‘Rothschilds controlling the climate’.
Jews again. Is there nothing we can’t do?
OPEN THREAD!
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Hospitals are confronting a new opioid crisis: an alarming shortage of pain meds.
JONATHAN TURLEY: McCabe just made life tough for Comey and the special counsel.
SAME REASON A DOG LICKS ITS BALLS: BECAUSE IT CAN. ACLU asks in lawsuit: Why is the TSA searching digital devices on domestic flights?
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: “Who Are We to Judge?”
“The Lottery” is a classic short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. It’s the tale of a rural, farming community in America of about three hundred residents. The town seems normal by all accounts as it prepares for a traditional, harvest-time event known as The Lottery.
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Then in the 1990s, something started to change dramatically in how her students responded to the sobering tale. Rather than being horrified by it, some claimed they were bored by it, while others thought the ending was “neat.”
When Ms. Haugaard pressed them for more of their thoughts, she was appalled to discover that not one student in the class was willing to say the practice of human sacrifice was morally wrong! She describes one interaction with a student, whom she calls Beth:
“‘Are you asking me if I believe in human sacrifice?’ Beth responded thoughtfully, as though seriously considering all aspects of the question. ‘Well, yes,’ I managed to say. ‘Do you think that the author approved or disapproved of this ritual?’
“I was stunned: This was the [young] woman who wrote so passionately of saving the whales, of concern for the rain forests, of her rescue and tender care of a stray dog. ‘I really don’t know,’ said Beth; ‘If it was a religion of long standing, [who are we to judge]?’”
“For a moment, I couldn’t even respond,” reports Ms. Haugaard. “This woman actually couldn’t seem to bring herself to say plainly that she was against human sacrifice. My classes of a few years before would have burst into nervous giggles at the suggestion. This class was calmly considering it.”
At one point, a student explained she had been taught not to judge, and if this practice worked for them, who was she to argue differently.
Appalled by the student’s moral indifference, Ms. Haugaard concludes, “Today, for the first time in my thirty years of teaching, I looked my students in the eye and not one of them in my class could tell me that this society, this cultural behavior was a bad thing.”
As a wise woman once wrote, “Judge, and be prepared to be judged.”
I BLAME RUSSIAN ELECTION INTERFERENCE: The Exit Polls Are in From the Russian Election, and You’ll Never Guess Who Won.
MEET HILLARY’S OTHER, MORE POWERFUL OPPO RESEARCH FIRM: You didn’t think Clinton would only have Fusion GPS, did you? Those guys are amateurs compared to this London-based bunch of former British intel veterans and their buddies from around the world.
SHARPTON LIKENS HIMSELF TO JAMES BOND VS KOCH BROTHER ‘VILLAINS.’
If Sharpton opposes the Kochs, that makes him anti-gay marriage, pro-police state, pro-Patriot Act, and anti-legalized drugs. Talk about being a contrarian at MSNBC…
HERE’S THE ESSENTIAL PROGRAM TO TRACK THE FBI SCANDAL: If you aren’t reading The Last Refuge, spend 10 minutes with this and you will be henceforth and forever more. Or until Sundance retires.
BRINGING NEW MEANING TO THE PHRASE, THIS MAN KNOWS HOW TO HOLD HIS GUINNESS: The most St. Patrick’s Day bar trick you’ll ever see (video.)
AYN RAND DIDN’T WRITE THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE AS A HOW-TO GUIDE: How cultists used poison and politics to take over an entire town.
THE HIGHER EDUCATION CRACK UP BEGINS. Plus, news you can use: “You’d be astounded at how politicized some foreign language departments are. Many English departments are totally lost to the left; one easy screen is to see whether they have dropped Shakespeare as a requirement for an English degree. When you see that, you can cross them off your list.”
Read the whole thing.
JULIETTE OCHIENG: Altared State (Spelling Intentional). “I get this way because, for a while, I’ve had a low-level sense that we should be concentrating on more than the outrages of the day, even those that imperil our republic.”
MICHAEL WALSH: McCabe & Mr. Mueller.
Conventional wisdom says the president has to take his beating in the stocks for as long as Mueller feels like keeping him there. But nothing about Trump is conventional and, on the evidence of this weekend, there’s no reason to think he feels himself constrained by such thinking. So what if he does order Rosenstein to shut down Mueller? Then what?
Read the whole thing.
Related: Don Surber on “Why the press defends McCabe’s crime.”
(Classical allusion in Michael’s headline.)
DISPATCHES FROM THE K-12 IMPLOSION: A kindergarten gun control walkout? C’mon, man…
Related: School Walkout Was a Muppets Revival.
Young people have many virtues that accord with their youth, including idealism, innocence, enthusiasm, and energy. They do not, however, have educations or experience. They lack independence. And, in the latest far-from-spontaneous protest in favor of gun control, they are not only wrong, but also the victims of shameless manipulation by adults for narrow, partisan ends. While such manipulation was entertaining to watch in the case of the Muppets, when constitutional rights are at stake and the puppets are our children it is simply offensive.
As Thomas Sowell would say, mascots of the anointed.
FASTER, PLEASE: So Long to the Iran Deal.
WRECKED: BEN SHAPIRO DESTROYS CNN’S BRIAN STELTER FOR DENYING MEDIA’S LIBERAL BIAS.
“I don’t want CNN to disappear,” Shapiro exclaimed when explaining why he was tough on the media. “There is a difference between op-ed and journalism. It is why my critique of MSNBC sometimes is a lot less strident, I think, than my critique of CNN. Because CNN purports to be objective and MSNBC really does not purport to be objective in the same way.”
Stelter shot back with a snide retort that Shapiro and his staff should try to get jobs at The New York Times: “If you don’t like the coverage, try to be a part of the solution as opposed to complaining about it.”
With a light-hearted chuckle, Shapiro pointed out that CNN probably wouldn’t hire him and that they probably didn’t have the money to pay for him: “I don’t know, would you hire me? I really doubt that, and not only that, I’m not sure you guys can pay me. I’ll be frank, I make a lot of money.”
Heh, indeed.™ I just hope Stelter didn’t dox Shapiro after losing the debate.
BIG: 2018 Lincoln Navigator L Black Label 4×4. Verdict: “Every hip-hop artist in America is about to trade in an Escalade.”