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These Kids Today: Main Character Syndrome

15th March 2024

You’re the Star of the Show With Main Character Syndrome

The Trouble with “Main Character Syndrome”

4 signs you have ‘main character syndrome,’ according to therapists

How to Recognize the Signs of ‘Main Character Syndrome’

The cornerstone of modern personality appears to be narcissism.

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FLASHBACK: The 20 Most INSANE Quotes From Hollywood’s Elite

10th March 2024

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Tonight is Hollywood’s biggest night, the 96th Academy Awards, when the liberal bubble of the movie industry puts on a TV show expecting the rest of the nation to pay rapt attention. So it’s a good time to dig out the absolute worst quotes we’ve collected over the years from the “stars,” as they championed their favorite liberal politicians and badmouthed conservatives.

Democrats, the Hollywood elite tells us, are virtual deities walking amongst us. Back in 2012, actor Jamie Foxx saluted “our lord and savior, Barack Obama,” during the Soul Train Awards on BET. “It would be wonderful to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass,” actress Gwyneth Paltrow not-so-constitutionally enthused at a Democratic fundraiser for Obama in 2014.

But Republicans are foul creatures who need to be exterminated. “If we were in other countries,” actor Alec Baldwin screamed after Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998, “we would stone [GOP Congressman] Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and children!” Nearly two decades later, actor George Takei sneered that Justice Clarence Thomas was “a clown in blackface sitting on the Supreme Court….He is a disgrace to America.”

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Ottawa Aids Gender-Inclusive Demining in Ukraine

29th February 2024

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Canada’s $3.02 billion in financial and military support for the Ukrainian war effort includes $4 million in funding for “gender-transformative mine action,” a move that has brought questions and criticism on social media.

“This project from the HALO Trust aims to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of Ukrainians, including women and internally displaced persons, by addressing the threat of explosive ordnance present across vast areas of the country,” the line item says, The National Post reported.

“Project activities include conducting non-technical surveys and subsequent manual clearance in targeted communities; providing capacity building to key national stakeholders; and establishing a gender and diversity working group to promote gender-transformative mine action in Ukraine,” the item, coming in a press release about the war funding, stated.

Count the buzzwords. This is what people mean by the phrase ‘word salad’.

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In Defence of Pick-Up Artistry

28th February 2024

UnHerd.

A decade later, I’m struck by the astonishing prescriptiveness of this line: the notion that any sexual encounter preceded by flirtation, negotiation, or indeed any assessment of a suitor’s desirability should be understood as “less-than-ideal” — and that any man who seeks to make himself desirable to an as-yet-uncertain woman is doing something inherently sleazy. Granted, the anti-Game backlash began in the form of reasonable scrutiny of controversial seduction techniques like “negging” (a slightly backhanded compliment deployed for the sake of flirtation).

But since then it has morphed into something much stranger: the idea that anything a man does to impress a woman, from basic grooming to speaking in complete sentences, should be viewed with suspicion. Behind this is the same low-trust mindset that leads women to treat every date as a hunt for the red flags that reveal her suitor as a secret monster. If he compliments you? That’s lovebombing, which means he’s an abuser. If he doesn’t compliment you, that’s withholding, which also means he’s an abuser. Other alleged “red flags” include oversharing, undersharing, paying for the date, not paying for the date, being too eager, being five minutes late, and drinking water — or worse, drinking water through a straw.

Cf. the innumerable TikTok videos by women complaining that men don’t come up and talk to them any more. (Really? And why would that be?)

Go to YouTube and search for ‘Rollo Tomassi’ and be prepared for a trip Down the Rabbit Hole.

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Tucker Does Middle Earth

28th February 2024

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Okay, this is officially the funniest thing on the internet right now: “Tucker Carlson” explaining the real story of Lord of the Rings.

AI is cheap entertainment.

I’d be more impressed if it were done in Sindarin. Or even Klingon–that would be entertainment.

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White Supremacy Goes Back to “Early Church”: Oxford Professor

28th February 2024

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White supremacy remains so prevalent in Christianity today because it took root in the early church, theologian Anthony Reddie told a Baylor University conference this month.

Reddie, a professor of black theology at Oxford University in England, said in his Feb. 15 speech that white supremacy has “distorted” Christianity since the time of Jesus Christ, according to Baptist News Global.

‘Black theology’? More accurately ‘anti-white theology’. (Oxford appears to be going the way of Harvard. Pity.)

Jesus was a white supramacist? Who knew?

 

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Biden’s Fitness to Stand Trial Irrelevant to Presidency, Says Psychiatrist Who Declared Trump Dangerous

28th February 2024

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President Joe Biden’s fitness to stand trial and his fitness to serve as president are not comparable standards, the forensic psychiatrist who led the movement to oust Donald Trump from the presidency via the 25th Amendment contends.

Dr. Bandy X. Lee, who edited “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” first released in 2017, said earlier this month that she did not judge Biden’s cognitive decline to be a danger to his service as a president.

Last week, several Republican lawmakers responded to her comments, with many alleging a “double standard” for judgments of Trump and Biden.

Oh, ya think?

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Black Activist Lawyer’s Idea to Stop Law-Breaking: Just Legalize Crime

19th February 2024

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During a recent appearance on MSNBC, a black activist lawyer suggested that crime in the United States could be completely eliminated if all crime was just legalized.

The comments were made by Ben Crump, who specializes in civil rights cases and was the attorney for the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

Be the first in your Blue State….

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Chicago Scraps Gunshot Detection System Accused of Racial Bias

16th February 2024

The Guardian.

Chicago will not renew its ShotSpotter contract and plans to stop using the controversial gunshot detection system later this year, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office announced on Tuesday.

The system, which relies on an artificial intelligence algorithm and network of microphones to identify gunshots, has been criticized for inaccuracy, racial bias and law enforcement misuse. An Associated Press investigation of the technology detailed how police and prosecutors used ShotSpotter data as evidence in charging a Chicago grandfather with murder before a judge dismissed the case due to insufficient evidence.

Chicago’s contract with SoundThinking, a public safety technology company that says its ShotSpotter tool is used in roughly 150 cities, expires on Friday. The city plans to wind down use of ShotSpotter technology by late September, according to city officials. Since 2018, the city has spent $49m on ShotSpotter.

“Chicago will deploy its resources on the most effective strategies and tactics proven to accelerate the current downward trend in violent crime,” the city said in a statement.

“Doing this work, in consultation with community, violence prevention organizations and law enforcement, provides a pathway to a better, stronger, safer Chicago for all.”

Young male black gang-bangers will vote for Johnson for a hundred years, per Lyndon Johnson.

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London Mayor Mocked Over Woke Train Line Names

16th February 2024

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Users of London’s famous rail network will soon be forced to think of Britain’s racial, feminist, and LGBT history whenever they step on an Overground train.

The six lines that make up the Overground network—suburban rail services, not to be confused with the Underground—are “fondly” known collectively as the “Ginger Line.” But Transport for London (TfL), the local government body responsible for the city’s transport networks, chaired by Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan, last August set about renaming them. Khan promised this scheme in 2021 and said it was aimed at making the network easier to navigate. The new names, unveiled this week, reveal another, far more political motive.

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Seattle English Students Told It’s “White Supremacy” to Love Reading, Writing

16th February 2024

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Students in a Seattle English class were told that their love of reading and writing is a characteristic of “white supremacy,” in the latest Seattle Public Schools high school controversy. The lesson plan has one local father speaking out, calling it “educational malpractice.”

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Inspired Idiot of the Week: American Psychological Association

15th February 2024

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“Can Selecting the Most Qualified Candidate Be Unfair?” asked researchers in a recent study published by the American Psychological Association.

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Rep. Barbara Lee in California Senate race says minimum wage should be raised to $50

15th February 2024

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Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

Kill those jobs! Kill those jobs!

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What Is DignifAI? The Controversial New Use of AI, Explained

9th February 2024

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The ascent of AI has naturally lent itself to the rise of AI adult content, which people have used to get their jollies off by employing the hot new technology to craft women in various states of undress. Obviously, this has come with some serious ethical issues, but it isn’t all that surprising, as new technology tends to cut its teeth in NSFW content before becoming mainstream.

This has made a recent trend where people appear to be doing the opposite and use AI to make real women more clothed peculiar, and this new #DignifAI trend has sparked intense debate on social media.

Apparently putting virtual clothes on half-naked women is mysoginist. Who knew?

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California Introduces First-in-Nation Slavery Reparations Package

2nd February 2024

Politico.

California never had slavery. Why do they need to establish a ‘reparations package’?

Time to leave…

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Man Who Destroyed Satanic Shrine in Iowa Capitol Charged With ‘Hate Crime’

31st January 2024

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Michael Cassidy, a Christian veteran who decapitated a Satanic shrine on display in the Iowa State Capitol building, has been charged with a ‘hate crime’.

Iowa. That’s where we’re at these days. (If he were Muslim, of course, to charge him with a hate crime would be Islamophobia.)

UPDATE: Satan Needs a Red Carpet Interview

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How Will Throwing Soup at the ‘Mona Lisa’ Save the Planet?

30th January 2024

The Spectator.

Now the environmentalists are going after the “Mona Lisa.” Because of course they are. Just when you thought you couldn’t dislike these apocalyptic irritants anymore, now they’ve gone and pelted soup at another priceless artwork, the most famous artwork in the world no less, because they think their fever dreams about climate change are more important than ordinary people getting to marvel at da Vinci’s masterpiece.

Two activists from Riposte Alimentaire — France’s answer to JustStopOil, only with a particular interest in food policy — took their chance at the Louvre yesterday. After emptying a bottle of orange gloop on to the “Mona Lisa,” one of the women was captured on video shouting: “What is more important: art or the right to a healthy and sustainable diet?” They were blocked off by screens before being removed.

Thankfully, the painting wasn’t damaged. The “Mona Lisa” has been behind safety glass since the 1950s, after a vandal hurled acid at it. In 2009, a Russian woman — apparently upset by the rejection of her citizenship application — threw a mug at the painting, smashing only the mug. This isn’t the first time a climate nutter has had a go, either. In 2022, a young man disguised himself as an elderly woman, so he could get close enough to smear cake over the glass, all while shouting “think of the planet.”

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Snoop Dogg Switches Tracks, Now a Trump Admirer

28th January 2024

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The noise you hear is flapping and grunting.

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San Francisco Tried to Build a $1.7 Million Toilet. It’s Still Not Done.

24th January 2024

New York Times.

Fifteen months after city officials were ready to throw a party in the Noe Valley Town Square to celebrate funding for a tiny bathroom with a toilet and sink, nothing but mulch remains in its place.

The toilet project broke down the minute taxpayers realized the city was planning an event to celebrate $1.7 million in state funds that local politicians had secured for the lone 150-square-foot structure. That’s enough to purchase a single-family home in San Francisco — with multiple bathrooms.

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Watch: Joy Reid Argues That Books With Rape and Pedophilia Should Be in Schools

21st January 2024

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While wearing a Trump wig….

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Ann Arbor School Board Endorses Call for Ceasefire in Israel and Gaza

18th January 2024

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I didnt’ see any mention of it, but I’m sure the resolution calls for a free pony for every child in Gaza as well.

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Joy Reid Wears Trump Wig to Cover Iowa Cauci

16th January 2024

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French Navy Plows Through Million Dollar Missiles To Defeat Cheap Houthi Drones

15th January 2024

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A key reason that Yemen’s Houthis are unlikely to halt their attacks on Red Sea shipping as well as Western warships parked there is because immense pressure on the global transit waterway can be kept up, while it costs little to persist with such launches.

Many of the Houthis drones which are capable of reaching vessels far off the Yemeni coast have been estimated at not more than $20,000. Some of them are as low as a few thousand dollars to build. They can easily be intercepted by US and UK coalition warships, but at an immense cost for these Western militaries.

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COP29 Petrostate Climate Conference will be Held in Azerbaijan

6th January 2024

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How could this get funnier? Azerbaijan, once described as the nation where it rains oil, has just appointed a state oil company veteran as COP29 President.

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Communist Lawyers Sue to Create a Secessionist Monarchy in Hawaii

5th January 2024

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Secessionism is in the political eye of the beholder. Propose the restoration of the Republic of Texas and you’re a dangerous secessionist, but open fire on Congress in the name of Puerto Rico’s independence and you’re a hero of social justice. Then there’s Hawaiian secessionism.

The restoration of the Hawaiian monarchy seems both secessionist and anti-democratic which hasn’t stopped the quixotic project from winning the support of the anti-American Left.

Hawaii was a feudal society with nobles who believed that they were descended from the gods, and the kauwa pariahs, the actual descendants of the original conquered indigenous peoples, who were born as slaves, had their foreheads tattooed, and were used for human sacrifice.

America’s Neo-Communist lawyers would like to bring Hawaii’s glorious nobility back to power.

Because sometimes the right side of history requires fighting to restore a system based on slavery and human sacrifice, not just in Syria, Libya, and Egypt, but in the Hawaiian islands.

Call it the 1319 Project.

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UK Church Replaces “Husband and Wife” With More “Inclusive” Terms

2nd January 2024

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The Methodist Church in the UK has issued an ‘inclusive language’ guide, advising followers to refrain from using terms such as ‘husband’, ‘wife’, ‘brother’, and ‘sister’, reasoning that some people might find them “hurtful”.

You can’t make this shit up.

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Georgia Moves to Block Noncitizen Voting in State Constitution

12th December 2023

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Georgia’s top election official is pointing to the Biden administration’s failure to secure the southern border as a reason the state Legislature must act to prevent voting by foreign nationals in state elections.

“With open borders, citizenship verification for voter registration is more important than ever,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said Monday in a public statement.

Raffensperger called on the Georgia General Assembly to amend the state Constitution to clarify that only U.S. citizens may vote in elections. He warned that liberal organizations are trying to use the courts to overturn citizenship verification ahead of the 2024 election.

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Atlantic Magazine Urges Its Trump-Hating Readers Not to ‘Go Bonkers’ Again If Trump Wins

12th December 2023

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The Atlantic magazine’s unintentionally hilarious IF TRUMP WINS series warns its readers of the scary apocalyptic future should Donald Trump emerge victorious in 2024, but Helen Lewis brought a mildly moderating tone to the flock, urging the Trump-loathing readers not to “go bonkers” again as they did after Trump won in 2016. Should the unthinkable happen again, Lewis urged her readers not to go full mental jacket as explained in the title, “THE LEFT CAN’T AFFORD TO GO MAD.”

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Europe: The Magical Land of Mickey Mouse

20th October 2023

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For no other reason than historical, the entire European Parliament migrates from Brussels to Strasbourg for one week each month. To orchestrate the move, the parliament charters entire trains. This practice has drawn criticism and ridicule at the best of times. Earlier this week, due to a switching error, dozens of Members of European Parliament heading for Strasbourg found themselves at Disneyland instead. The symbolism of the error invites numerous jokes, such as POLITICO recalling that the EP is regularly seen as a Mickey Mouse Parliament – though I would say that Mr. Mouse probably runs a tighter ship than Europe.

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Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag

13th October 2023

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Whenever I leave my Berlin apartment, the first thing I see is a sign saying CHICKEN HAUS BURGER; the second is a café blackboard announcing: « You can’t buy happiness but you can buy CROIFFLE and that’s kind of the same thing. » A billboard advertises an upcoming film as « ein STATEMENT für GIRLPOWER »; one shop promises a wide range of Funsocken. Rather more disturbing — particularly here in Neukölln, a neighbourhood copiously populated by leftie Americans and families from the Middle East — is the Arabic-German barber shop called WHITE BOSS. And when I go downtown to the bookstore where I occasionally host readings, the only good coffee nearby is served by a place unbelievably named PURE ORIGINS.
Being an English native speaker in Berlin means wading daily through a sea of linguistic nonsense. « Be Coffee My Monkey » orders one café; another says « Make Coffee Love Magic ». At one of those cafés you might overhear Germans saying things like « das ist ein Gamechanger! » and « Hast du’s geliket? » and « Oh my God was für ein Fuck-My-Life-Moment ». On bad days, I worry that English has turned primarily into a status symbol — a tool of pure Habitus, a means for young elites to signify their cosmopolitanism and savviness. On days like that, it’s also hard to avoid the feeling that English — the language I inhabit, the tool I use to pay the rent and tell my wife I love her — is like too little butter spread out across too many bits of toast. In the battle of the languages this absolute anglophone triumph might be as Pyhrric a victory as a victory can be. Ease of access means seeing the worst of yourself plastered everywhere; it’s a privilege, sure, but a source of embarrassment and solitude as well. If das Grindset is what winning looks like, then count me tired of winning.

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The Legal Battle for the Next President

3rd September 2023

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Next year’s presidential election here in America could turn out to be the most absurd in the nation’s history.

On the one hand, Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, much like Navalny in Russia, would be under indictment by the justice machine led by his own opponent, the sitting president. On the other hand, Joe Biden, the sitting president himself, could be under impeachment by a Congress led by his opponent’s own party.

There is a fair chance that when we get to about this time next year, neither Trump nor Biden will be on the ballot. However, this is already gearing up to be such an unprecedented presidential campaign that previous experience is of limited use in predicting its outcome. For one, the left still has not been able to establish that their indictments against Trump also make him ineligible to run for president. This opens many absurd scenarios, including one where Trump is found guilty of whatever charge they have thrown at him, goes to jail, wins the presidential election, takes the oath of office, and pardons himself.

But wait, it gets better.

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Intellectual Privilege

30th July 2023

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“One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputation.” – Thomas Sowell

Sowell’s truth has been demonstrated amply over the years, but during the current administration, it seems to be underlined, italicized, and emphasized. It does not seem to matter what an intellectual does. Even when it blows up in their faces, they walk away with their reputation unharmed and generally a promotion.

It is like watching a real-life version of a Roadrunner cartoon. Wile E. Coyote (a metaphorical intellectual) has the boulder he intended for the roadrunner land on him. He is flattened, but soon staggers away and by the next scene is intact, plotting another asinine scheme to get the roadrunner. So, too with our intellectual. No matter how staggering the setback, in the next scene our intellectual is back at it, sometimes at another job, but with no loss of prestige.

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The America Report: In Search of New Leadership

16th July 2023

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How can you not love America? It is possibly the only country where someone can find a bag of cocaine inside the president’s office, where the world’s most technologically skilled police services can find no way to trace the perpetrator who left it there, and where the country’s political leadership does not get ridiculed by the media over this.

Let us not even begin with all the questions about White House security (anthrax anyone?) and simply note that nobody has been blamed, nobody has resigned, and nobody is forced to answer any questions about the incident.

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Indigenous Chief Wants ‘Stolen’ Ben & Jerry’s HQ Land

7th July 2023

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The recent controversy surrounding Ben & Jerry’s and its calls to reclaim “stolen Indigenous land” is heating up.

An Indigenous tribe, descended from the Native American nation, originally controlled the Vermont territory where the ice cream giant’s headquarters is located, and its chief wants it back, Newsweek reported Friday.

According to the report, Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation — one of four descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont — said his tribe was “always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands.”

Ben & Jerry’s has yet to reach out.

Proglodytes have absolutely no capacity for thinking things through. And these guys are supposed to be the smart ones? I think not.

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Thought for the Day

26th June 2023

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Campus Speech and Compromised Safety

31st May 2023

Quilette.

Kathleen Stock tweeted recently that ‘Many philosophers have existed only in their own minds, but I think I may well be the first to exist only in other people’s.’ She was responding to the latest outbreak of leftist moral panic about gender-critical feminism, in this case a series of actions taken by student activists at the University of Oxford in protest against her being invited to participate in a debate hosted by the Oxford Union—which describes itself as ‘the world’s most prestigious debating society’. In commenting that she exists only in other people’s minds, Stock meant that the version of herself and her views being objected to by the student activists was unrecognizable to her.

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An ‘Egg-Producing Female’ Is a Hen, Not a Woman

22nd May 2023

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We are always told by today’s woke Stasi that “language matters.” They’re quite correct: that’s why their own attempts to police our words have to be so assiduously resisted by conservatives. When the language being policed is scientific in nature, the need for resistance is even greater. To redefine the discourse of science along political lines is to redefine the very parameters of reality itself.

The latest attempt to do so comes in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Language Project (EEBLP), launched in February 2023 by a network of clearly left-leaning scientists from universities across the U.S. and Canada. Predictably, the EEBLP commissars seek to decolonize their subject, whose very origins are supposedly steeped in the Western civilizational filth of white supremacy and cis-heteronormative oppression alike.

In their online “Team Statement of Positionality” (‘positionality’ here being a fancy euphemism for ‘sexual, racial, and political bias,’ but in a good way), EEBLP proselytizers are encouraged to “critically assess their subfield’s terminology,” asking whether it helps “celebrate dominant narratives or oppressive norms”—norms such as the sole existence of the two traditional binary human sexes of ‘male’ and ‘female,’ and not any recently invented new made-up ones like those of the popular entertainer Sam Smith, who self-identifies both as ‘non-binary’ and as a professional singer.

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Bible? What Bible?

20th May 2023

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Time was when a politician like Patrick Henry (“Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace–but there is no peace!”) or Abraham Lincoln (“A house divided against itself cannot stand”) could quote from the Bible and assume that pretty much everyone in his audience got the reference. Those days are gone, of course. But most Americans still have at least a nodding acquaintance with the Book. Not, however, those who write and edit articles for the New York Times.

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Man Fatally Shoots Fellow Canvasser for Anti-Gun Philadelphia Democrat

10th May 2023

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Canvassers for a far-left Philadelphia mayoral candidate who has pledged to crackdown on gun violence in the city pulled guns on each other and one of them died, according to the police.

A 22-year-old man, who was canvassing Philadelphia’s East Germantown neighborhood on behalf of the progressive group OnePA, fatally shot a 46-year-old fellow canvasser on Monday, police said. Both men were knocking on doors in support of soft-on-crime Democratic mayoral candidate Helen Gym, among other left-wing candidates.

The victim and the killer “knew each other and began arguing after they ‘happened upon each other'” in the neighborhood, deputy police commissioner Frank Vanore told the Philadelphia Inquirer. Inspector Ernest Ransom said the argument led both men to draw guns on each other, with the younger canvasser shooting and killing the older man.

The shooter “said he was acting in self-defense,” Ransom told the Inquirer.

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The Fairytale of British Republicanism

9th May 2023

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“You seem to find this whole thing rather amusing,” snapped a short angry man with a Not My King sign, about half an hour into the Republic protest against the coronation of King Charles III. I must admit I did. Kettled into a small enclave just off Trafalgar Square, an angry swell of old school socialists, Twitter anarchists, Lib Dem mums, eccentric vicars, boomer hippies, blue haired students and Covid conspiracists had somehow foundthemselves part of the coronation spectacle. Before the bells of St Martin in the Fields, the full shouty brunt of British republicanism was aimed at a bewildered stream of Chinese tourists and young families out for a day in London.

The survival of the British monarchy is one of the great wonders of modern history. Spending the morning of the coronation with Republic, it began to seem less mysterious. Despite everything in recent years, the Monarchy is still liked more than most of our institutions and probably every one of our elected politicians. No one gathered there could really explain why. The arguments were articulated in between the shouty chanting: things about “modern Democracy” and a “family of Lizards”, none of which quite landed the blow as the day unfolded around us.

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Black Cleopatra?

19th April 2023

Ptolomy I was Greek, one of Alexander the Great’s generals.

In accord with pharoanic tradition, his descendants in the Egyptian royal family depended on brother-sister marriages to ‘keep the bloodline pure’.

Cleopatra was Greek, wholly Greek, and nothing but Greek. Black? No chance.

Apparently black people are comfortable believing six impossible things before breakfast, so long as it’s Good For Blacks.

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NYT: “How Gay Men Saved Us from Mpox”

17th April 2023

Steve Sailer.

Thank goodness those heroic gay men saved us so heroically from some obscure disease called Mpox that they didn’t even let become common enough that you or I had ever heard of it.

Oh, wait, Mpox is what they now call Monkeypox because Monkeypox was too memorable and the Authorities were worried that you’d remember it. And if I remember correctly, although who can remember back that far, gay men didn’t save us from monkeypox. Instead, they inflicted it on each other.

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The Inflation Crisis Is Over. You’ll Never Guess Who Deserves the Credit.

12th April 2023

The New Republic.

You’ll never guess because the author pulled it out of his ass.

The inflation crisis is over, and you can thank the poorest among us for delivering what (so far at least) is a soft landing. That isn’t the mainstream view yet, but eventually I think it will be.

No, it won’t, because the poor have nothing to do with inflation. Inflation is done by the people with power over the money supply: The government. (Biden and his handlers.)

Timothy Robert Noah (born 1958), an American journalist and author, is a staff writer at The New Republic. Previously he was labor policy editor for Politico, a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, a senior editor of The New Republic assigned to write the biweekly “TRB From Washington” column, and a senior writer at Slate, where for a decade he wrote the “Chatterbox” column. In April 2012, Noah published a book, The Great Divergence, about income inequality in the United States.

No training or expertise in economics, then, but plenty of experience pushing the Narrative.

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More NYC Restaurants Using Reverse ATMs to Get Around ‘Cash-22’ Dilemma

5th April 2023

New York Post.

A growing handful of New York City restaurants are determined not to handle cash despite the Big Apple’s ban on refusing hard currency – and they are turning to a new twist on old technology.

Slutty Vegan, an Atlanta-based vegan comfort food chain with outposts in Harlem and Brooklyn, is among restaurants that are installing “reverse ATM machines” that spit out prepaid cards to get around the “Cash-22” dilemma, Side Dish has learned.

One service provider – called ReverseATM, appropriately enough – rents out ATM-style machines that accept cash bills in exchange for an “open loop” debit card whose balance can be used anywhere that Visa and MasterCard are accepted.

An executive at the ReverseATM – whose clients range from fast-food eateries to large sporting venues like Madison Square Garden – told Side Dish that customers are never charged a fee for the debit cards.

Of course not–they get their piece from the business that accepts the card, as is normal.

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College Bubble Bath

4th April 2023

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

It is fun to take in the Chronicle of Higher Education every day, because it is like reading a trade journal for an industry that knows it is in decline, along the lines of daily newspapers or buggy whip makers. Every day the Chron operates from a cringe mode about the problems of declining enrollment, financial pressures, the poor morale among DEI staff and the rising backlash against it, and above all paranoia about Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Yesterday the Chron had an especially revealing article about labor shortages in higher education. This will certainly come as bizarre news for the armies of un- and under-employed Ph.ds and adjunct instructors everywhere. But it turns out faculty hiring isn’t the main problem. Colleges are having a difficult time hiring—wait for it—administrators.

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Beverage Pretending To Be Beer Features Man Pretending To Be Woman

2nd April 2023

Babylon Bee.

Long a staple drink of people who hate actual beer, Bud Light felt putting Dylan Mulvaney’s face on a can would also attract people who hate actual women. “As a man acting out the most horrendously offensive stereotypes of women, Mulvaney taps into the soul of people who despise real women,” said Mr. Whitworth. “As a company dedicated to serving those who detest real beer, the partnership made perfect sense. The new beer can just shouts, ‘Come, enjoy this atrocious substitute for the real thing’.”

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Extinct Wooly Mammoth Meatball Made In Lab

2nd April 2023

Read it.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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‘I Played the Anime Dating Sim That Does Your Taxes for You’

2nd April 2023

Tech Crunch.

Your romantic love story with Iris (get it, like IRS?) continues similarly throughout the game — while getting to know you, she asks you further questions, like what your address is and whether you have dependents (TH3K only works for single people without dependents, because Iris doesn’t want to get involved in a complicated situation and/or MSCHF did not make the game that complex… also, it doesn’t do state tax.) She even gets nosy enough to ask you for your annual income, tax withholdings and even your social security number, but you’re so enamored by Iris that you’re willing to look past her invasive questions — and the fact that she seems to love talking about taxes. A lot.

I am not making this up.

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Just How Big Should the House Be? Let’s Do the Math.

29th March 2023

Washington Post.

To get our politics working again, we need a system that delivers energy (the ability for the government to get things done), republican safety (protection of our basic rights), popular sovereignty (adaptive responsiveness to the will of the people) and inclusion (all voices should be synthesized in the national voice of our House of Representatives). Real proximity of representatives to their constituents is necessary for delivering on all those design principles. For that, we need a bigger, and continuously growing, House of Representatives. We need smaller districts and fairer representation between more- and less-populous places.

But how big should the House be? That is also to ask how small should a district be. And based on what math? And on what principle of growth?

Scholars and advocates have been working on this question for decades. There are seven basic options, all compiled in a report on enlarging the House by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences commission on the state of our democracy, which I co-chaired. Those options would increase the size of Congress from 435 to between 572 to 9,400.

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The Issue With Our Toilet Tissue

29th March 2023

CBS News Pittsburgh.

Every day, we make environmental decisions. Recycling has become almost a reflex.

But did you ever think you are making an environmental or climate decision when you buy toilet paper?

Last week’s World Forest Day went pretty much unnoticed, except for one group which chose the day to release its Issue with Tissue report.

The report takes toilet paper makers to task for wiping out a lot of forest land.

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