MATT TAIBBI: Orf vs. the Memory Hole: The Trevor Bauer Controversy. “A controversial and unpopular baseball player is accused of savage behavior, spurring instantaneous calls for banishment. A few years of legal process later, it appears the gun was jumped.”
Someone should be held responsible.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Home purchase activity is at a “virtual standstill” as interest rates continue to grow.
LOL: Indigenous Translations Will Be Added to Street Signs Around Cambridge.
Buffy Ste. Marie will be proud.
IF WHITE SUPREMACY IS A THING, WHY DO SO MANY WHITE PEOPLE PRETEND TO BE SOMETHING ELSE? CBC Investigation Says Buffy Sainte-Marie Has Falsely Claimed Her Native Identity: The ‘Fifth Estate’ episode, which aired Friday, alleges that the singer-songwriter’s white adoptive parents were in fact her biological parents, among other explosive revelations. “This potential smoking gun could be a destabilizing and demoralizing blow for many members of the Indigenous community, who in the past 12 months also have seen aspersions cast on the heritage of high-profile figures including Sacheen Littlefeather and independent film producer Heather Rae.”
By “aspersions,” they mean “debunkings.”
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S ASSESSMENTS ARE NOT TO BE RELIED UPON: The Biden administration didn’t name Knoxville a US tech hub. It’s becoming one ‘anyway.’
BOB GRABOYES: Intellectual Tyrants Beget True Believers.
AS USUAL, THE FDA IS MAKING YOUR LIFE WORSE: Free the Meds: 5 Drugs You Should Be Able To Buy Over the Counter.
WELL, TO BE FAIR, THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT OF TENURE: Temple U. board chair: Tenured prof Marc Lamont Hill would be ‘fired immediately’ at private company.
That said, he’s a schmuck.
WHY IS THE IVY LEAGUE SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTI-SEMITISM? Cornell Lockdown Due to Threats.
WE’RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT, ANYMORE: Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider responds to Israeli forces playing ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It.’ “You know what? Israelis, the assault on the Israelis, people are losing sight of something. People saying that, ‘Oh, the response is gonna be too intense for what happened.’ Well, you don’t get to decide on the response when you do heinous things to civilians. You don’t get to say, ‘Oh, that’s enough, that’s enough retaliation.'”
Exactly.
OBVIOUSLY WE’RE NOT FEMINISMING HARD ENOUGH: Suicide Rates Are up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls. “Since 2010, rates of self-harm episodes have increased for adolescents in the Anglosphere countries, especially for girls. For data on all sources, and larger versions of the graphs, see Rausch and Haidt (2023). Before 2010, there was not much happening. By 2015, self-harm episodes were at record-high levels in all five countries. . . . I have added a shaded area on all graphs from 2010 to 2015, which is the period that Jon calls ‘The Great Rewiring of Childhood’ in his forthcoming book, The Anxious Generation. It’s the five-year period when adolescence changed to a phone-based form; adolescents went from nearly all owning flip phones (or other basic phones) to nearly all owning smartphones with high-speed data plans and continuous (and nearly unlimited) access to the internet and social media. This is the five-year period in which adolescent mental health began to deteriorate around the Western world.”
ANOTHER “KNOWN WOLF.” Maine police alerted weeks ago about threats from mass shooting suspect.
PAUL BEDARD: Weekly Report Card: Biden ‘Just not connecting.’
SAVAGES SHOULD BE DEALT WITH SAVAGELY: Kurt Schlichter: Accept That Savagery Is the True Nature of the World – and Deal With It.
PRESIDENT MILO MINDERBINDER: Biden Administration: War Is Very Good For Business.
Okay, that’s an unfair comparison. Milo was competent.
The West had a better ruling class then. But I do remember when all the best and brightest were encouraging me to punch Nazis. Now they’re mostly making excuses for them.
READING INSTAPUNDIT WOULD HAVE GOTTEN YOU STARTED ON THAT SOONER: Berkeley Law Dean Chemerinsky: “Nothing has prepared me for the antisemitism I see on college campuses now.” “I call on my fellow university administrators to speak out and denounce the celebrations of Hamas and the blatant antisemitism that is being voiced.”
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