IT MEANS “BIDEN 2024” IS LOOKING LESS LIKELY: It Looks Like Biden’s Classified Documents Scandal Is About To Explode. “The decision to search more places for documents is a troubling development for Joe Biden and the White House team, who have clearly been caught off-guard by a scandal they had hoped to keep under wraps before it was leaked to the media a couple of weeks ago. But what exactly does it mean?”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
January 23, 2023
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FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Is It Still Armed Robbery When the Weapon Is an Office Supply? “This week we have the curious case of the armed robber who wasn’t, what happens when someone becomes emotionally attached to drain pipes, and North Carolina Man showing Florida Man how it’s really done.”
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Texas Aims To Rein In Rogue DAs. “As George Soros-backed leftwing Democrats started capturing District Attorney offices across the country, a dangerous soft-on-crime ethos has taken hold in many blue-controlled cities. Prosecutors are letting violent felons back on the streets for minimal bond, no bond, or even failing to charge them entirely.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood looks like a scene from the WALKING DEAD as grim photos show ‘tranq’ addicts shooting up in broad daylight on sidewalks in area dubbed ‘Zombieland.’
Figures aren’t available yet for 2022, but overdose deaths in the US increased 50% from just 2019-2021.
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: George Santos, Drag Queen? The Rabbit Hole Just Got a Lot Deeper.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS STUCK LIKE THAT: Biden’s IRS plans to squeeze everyone, even those making less than $400,000 a year.
THE COMPANY LOOKS SERIOUSLY TOP-HEAVY TO ME: Big Layoffs Come to Progressive Online Media Conglomerate, Vox.
NO, IT’S JUST DIFFICULT: College math a ‘white, cisheteropatriarchal space,’ Vanderbilt professor says at major conference.
“Undergraduate Mathematics Education as a White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space and Opportunities for Structural Disruption to Advance Queer of Color Justice” was the full title of the lecture given by Luis Leyva, associate professor of mathematics education at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.
Leyva delivered the lecture Jan. 4 in Boston at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023. The summit is the “largest mathematics gathering in the world,” according to its website.
“Cisheteropatriarchal” is a term in ethnic studies referring to “a system of male, straight, conforming-to-assigned sex system power,” teacher and curriculum designer R. Tolteka Cuauhtin told the Los Angeles Times in a 2019 article.
Leyva’s “findings depict[ed] how Black, Latin*, and Asian QT [queer and transgender] students’ narratives of experience reflect forms of intersectionality, or instances of oppression and resistance,” according to his lecture’s abstract.
Just going by the numbers — and academia discriminating against them — it’s a safe bet the Asian students are doing just fine.
THIS MIGHT BE TRUE: Alec Baldwin Wouldn’t Be In Trouble Today if He Were a Conservative.
WHERE IT BELONGS: Joe Manchin’s West Virginia Approval is in the Toilet.
After selling out West Virginia energy workers by voting for President Joe Biden’s $800 billion “Inflation Reduction Act” in August, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has seen his approval rating plummet.
A new poll out this week shows things haven’t improved as time has passed, calling into question Manchin’s re-election chances in 2024.
While Manchin’s approval rating back home continues to suffer, the Senator spent time this week in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum.
He’s setting himself up for a lucrative post-Senate career.
OF COURSE HE DOESN’T; THERE HAVE BEEN NO CONSEQUENCES: Joe Biden Has ‘No Regrets’ About Mishandling Classified Documents.
LAUGHINGWOLF: Preparedness Pays: Some Additional Thoughts On Weapons. “Let’s start with my top recommendations from buying your first firearm, and go from there. Honestly it doesn’t matter if it is your first or your one hundredth, you need to do a few things.”
I’M NOT SURPRISED: People Forced to ‘Go to Work.’ in the Metaverse Say It’s a Complete Nightmare.
“I am totally immersed in the metaverse, have a big headset on, and then I need to take off the Oculus, look on my phone for the two-factor authentication code that’s been sent to my phone, then memorize the number, put my headset back on, and try to key it in,” an employee at the tech-consulting firm Accenture, a major Meta funder that’s attempting to implement Oculus into the workspace, griped to Slate. “But when you take off the Oculus it automatically goes to sleep mode, and I was trying to navigate the back-and-forth.”
Also speaking to Slate, other workers attempting to get the job done in metaverse workspaces experienced similar woes.
“Between forgetting to charge headsets, operating system updates, new app installation/updates, logging into accounts, screensharing between desktop and headset,” David Stern, founder and CEO of the Slate Group’s Supporting Cast podcast platform, told Slate, “there’s just a lot that can go wrong.”
Workers also told Slate that there are some glaring accessibility issues, particularly for those with disabilities like motion sickness. And once someone actually gets into their digital workspace, the problems don’t end — even just figuring out basic social cues and conventions is apparently pretty difficult, and most of Slate’s sources seemed to agree that any merits of current VR work fail to outweigh the many reported downsides.
Facebook is spending up to $10 billion a year on this effort.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Liberal Media Bias Is Alive and More Embarrassing Than Ever. “They sincerely feel that the public is buying what they’re selling when it comes to Biden. It actually comes off feeling like they’re giving a slow kid a gold star on a refrigerator chart simply for accomplishing a mundane daily task.”
WHEN BENEFICIARIES OF THREE YEARS OF WEALTH TRANSFERS FROM THE HAVE-NOTS TO THE HAVE ARE BEMOANING INEQUALITY, DON’T TAKE THEM AT THEIR WORD: Why 200 millionaires want higher taxes: Inequality is “eating our world alive.”
They could just write checks to their various national treasuries, or give some wealth away to people who need help.
NOW THAT’S AN INSURRECTION: Antifa Forces Lay Siege to Georgia County in Battle Against ‘Cop City.’
FALLOUT: The World Economy No Longer Needs Russia. “With alternative sources in place, Putin’s attempt at blackmailing Europe on energy has failed.”
Putin still has Xi, but he buys at a discount.
January 19, 2023
PAULA BOLYARD: And Then The Came for Our Cake… “What could be more nanny-state than the government interfering in the free market? Or telling people what they can and cannot eat at work?”
THEY DON’T EVEN WISH THEY KNEW HOW TO QUIT HIM: Netflix Promotes Comedy Special with Trump Assassination Jokes. “The comedy special from the Left-leaning comic touches on Climate Change, free speech and his disdain for politicians.”
That’s entertainment?9
FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS: Hallelujah! Sony Pitching New Craig Ferguson Late-Night Show.