Archive for 2022
May 29, 2022
OPEN THREAD: What y’all need is a frontier psychiatrist.
SEEMS LIKELY: Economy could dampen growth of space industry.
NEWSWEEK: In Defense of the LSAT.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Surging meat prices cause summer grillers to order pizza instead.
UPDATE: A friend writes: “You know, the funny (unfunny) part about all this inflation is how ‘food insecurity’ is one of their top virtual signaling issues.”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: USDA Raises Food Price Forecast to Highest Level in 42 Years, Third Wave of U.S. Food Inflation Will Dwarf Prior Price Increases. “We are talking about future retail food prices that were simply unfathomable last year. You know how much prices at the supermarket have increased in the last six months. Double that, and there’s your estimation for food prices later this fall.”
Totally, completely unrelated: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.
I FIND YOUR IDEAS INTRIGUING AND WOULD LIKE TO SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR NEWSLETTER: Streetwise Professor: Save the World: Nuke Davos.
RIGHT ON SCHEDULE: The Sun is Waking Up. “After years of quiescence — the Sun was more often spotless than not in 2018, 2019, and 2020 — the change of pace is exciting solar observers. The Sun goes through 11-year cycles of magnetically instigated activity, which include sunspots, flares, and massive eruptions. While such activity last peaked around 2012 through 2014, that maximum was meager at best. In fact, it marked one of the quietest cycles in 100 years. Now, the uptick in activity seems to mark a change in the Sun’s behavior.”
SOMETHING NEW IN SHOTGUNS: Mossberg’s 590S: Short-Shell Specialist. “These new modifications have no noticeable impact on the function of the shotgun. All of the controls operate in typical 590 fashion with no levers, buttons or accessories that have to be adjusted in order to run the gun with short shells. In fact, 1¾”, 2¾” and 3″ shells can be mixed together and loaded into the magazine in any order the operator prefers. While the levels of felt recoil will change with mixed shells, the smooth feel and reliable feeding when cycling the action remains consistent, regardless of shell length.” 13 rounds of 12 gauge could come in handy.
MADE IN THE USA: World’s Best Can Opener. #CommissionEarned
FASTER, PLEASE: New vaccine type overcomes cancerous tumor defenses.
WELCOME BACK, CARTER: Joe Biden’s Presidency has Never Recovered From the Botched Withdrawal From Afghanistan. Reports on Biden’s sinking numbers have become routine. But August of 2021 was the turning point.
In more ways than one: Afghanistan Taught Putin That Biden ‘Is a Guy Who Can Be Pushed Around.’
NIKKI GOESER & THOMAS MASSIE: Red Flag Laws and Unintended Consequences. “Based only on a written complaint, which could come from a relative, friend, neighbor, or police officer, a judge decides whether to take away a person’s guns. There is no ability to challenge claims or to offer testimony from a mental health care expert. Gun control advocates argue that the person should not even know that the judge may be deciding to take his or her guns. When a hearing finally takes place up to a month later, if the person in question cannot afford an attorney, they will not be provided with one. When faced with the costs for a hearing, which may be up to $10,000, few people find that fighting red flag laws to keep their guns makes sense. Few defendants obtain legal representation, but the courts still overturn a third of the initial orders. The actual error rate is undoubtedly much higher, because many of those wrongly prosecuted don’t have a lawyer.”
Suddenly, all the Democrats’ doubts about the criminal justice system go out the window.
TWO OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST LOCKDOWN NAZIS MEET EACH OTHER, GET COVID.
I DON’T CARE WHAT THE DNA SAYS, THE PERP WAS OBVIOUSLY VESUVIUS: Scientists sequence genome from Pompeii victim’s DNA for first time.
HOW’S THAT WELCOME WAGON PROGRAM COMING ALONG? The Real ‘Great Replacement’ Theory: “More than half of American cities registered a loss of population over the last year. People flocked to suburbs and exurbs and headed west to the Sun Belt, according to the U.S. Census. The increase in population in those places comes at the expense of big cities, who lost population during the same period of time. This is the real ‘Great Replacement’ theory. Big cities are not ‘replacing’ their lost populations because the people are moving to smaller cities and towns with less crime, less taxes, and less left-wing folderol. Perhaps more interestingly, fewer immigrants are moving in to pick up the slack”
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Experts warn of serious injuries, death when children swallow button batteries.
LOOK, WHATEVER YOU PUT ON THAT ‘PROMPTER, PRESIDENT BURGUNDY WILL SAY! Biden Falsely Claims Jan. 6 Rioters ‘Killed Two Police Officers’ In Speech At Alma Mater.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Here’s What the Woke Outrage Mob Gets Wrong About Ricky Gervais’s New Special. The comedian shows transgender people the respect and equality that woke paternalism denies them.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Confused Old Man Shouts at Navy Grads That Putin Wants to ‘Findalize’ Europe. “Biden appears to be the first person ever to use the word ‘Findalize.’ He was actually trying to say that Putin was trying to Finlandize Europe, that is, make it a neutral zone between the U.S. and Russia. But the Big Guy couldn’t quite manage to get ‘Finlandize’ out, so we got ‘Findalize,’ and by this point, the WhiteHouse.gov transcriber, who must get combat pay when it comes time to transcribe a Biden speech, had apparently given up in despair, as the transcript leaves ‘Findalize’ there without even attempting to clear up what Old Joe was actually trying to say.”