DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Read it.

The United States government minted its final penny in November of 2025. This came after fiat money inflation succeeded in depriving pennies of nearly all their value. Pennies are still circulating, but it is increasingly common for stores to round cost totals to avoid giving pennies in change.

Also, people seeing that the metal content of their pennies is worth more than the face value are deciding that it is better to store pennies in a jar than to spend them.

The same issues that caused the US government to give up on pennies may soon encourage it to make a major change in regard to nickels.

Newsbusters.

On August 10, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy. Abortion advocates call it “closing the gaps” in “abortion rights protections.” Abortion foes call it “abortion until birth,” making it legal to dismember fully formed babies, limb from limb.

The “mainstream” media called it nothing. You couldn’t find that story on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, or NPR.

What about print? The New York Times noted this bill when it passed the state House in July, and The Washington Post ran an AP dispatch when it passed the state Senate. But I found nothing on the bill-signing.

Read it.

In what can only be described as a stunning failure of state and local policy and leadership, Los Angeles County recorded its highest tally of flea-borne typhus cases in 2025, confirming 220 diagnoses, up from 187 the year before, according to the county’s Department of Public Health. Almost nine in ten of those patients ended up hospitalized. Fleas that feed on infected rats, opossums, and other small mammals carry the bacteria behind the disease to humans, and Los Angeles has watched the case count climb for years. The 2025 total marks the sharpest jump yet.

Newsbusters.

National or International, they’re still all Socialists.

Read it.

Paramount Skydance chief executive David Ellison is scouting Austin, Texas, as a potential landing spot for the studio should California Attorney General Rob Bonta refuse to settle the multistate antitrust suit blocking his roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a New York Post report.

…

Ellison told his senior leadership team on Aug. 5 that the company would begin leaving California on Oct. 1 unless Bonta agrees to negotiate, Variety reported, with Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee under consideration and a five-year plan to shift most studio jobs out of state.

And another one bites the dust,
Another one bites the dust,
And another one’s gone, and another one’s gone,
Another one bites the dust….

Read it.

It’s been a long time since the Beatles convinced an entire generation of western youth in 1968 that “enlightenment” and personal peace could be found in the third world backwaters of India’s ashram retreats. As it turned out, the world famous band and the yogi scammers of that era would end up creating a trend that would sucker gullible liberals for decades to come.

The hippies were not smart, they were merely impressionable.

Today, the streets of India are likely the same in most places as they were back in the 1960s – Filled with trash and feces and not very safe. The country remains one of the most dangerous tourist markets on the planet for women – Around 90% of rapes go unreported due to law enforcement apathy and a culture of reprisal for women who come forward. Any travel outside of tourist enclaves is considered high risk.

British content creator Amy On The Move discovered this on her first trip to India, but she says she was willing to give the country a second chance. What she found was even more multicultural misery.

The problem with most white people is that when they find something likable or interesting they assume that everybody else will find it likable or interesting as well, with uniformly unpleasant results.

Read it.

Religion is the traditional source of sexual ethics, the rules meant to govern our sexual conduct. Its declining influence over our culture has left sexual ethics without a foundation, and yet the need for it clearly remains. Many people feel that an ethics based solely on consent cannot satisfy all the needs generated by our sexual nature. But is it possible to give secular reasons for sexual norms?

Roger Scruton thought so, and he made a compelling case for it in what is probably his best book, the unjustly neglected Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation (1986). Scruton’s views are worth revisiting in light of the sexual and romantic dysfunctions of our time. His perspective on sex may help people articulate their frustration and point us toward a better and more romantic ideal of what sex could be.

Even better is Dr. Davic M. Buss, Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between

Read it.

The PSYCA’s webpage asks: “With countless climate solutions, why are we in a crisis?” The pitch: “Join a community of 12,000 raising & expanding consciousness to discover pathways forward.”

New York Post.

What started as a regularly scheduled town hall in Dearborn, Michigan, erupted into a flashpoint over the influence of Muslim culture in American civic life Tuesday as the pastor of a local church accused the town of operating under Sharia law.

“America, we have lost this city. This is a city that is no longer up under American laws; we are up under Sharia law. We will not have it anymore,” Lorenzo Sewell, the pastor of 180 Church, said.

“Enough is enough.”

The outburst, which came amid a series of other anti-Islam protests in Dearborn, vocalizes fears that Muslim populations in Michigan are working to bring their communities more in line with their religious worldview, views Sewell believes are at odds with the vast majority of the country.

Babylon Bee.

Hey, its tough out there.

Watch it.

Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) is as totally baffled as the rest of us normal people.

If you don’t know what ‘forensic astrology’ means, you’re lucky.

The AWFLs are on the march.

Read it.

The Fourth Estate is constitutionally illiterate…

No, they are constitutionally ignorant. They could read the constitution if they wanted to but they just don’t want to.

On Sunday morning’s Meet the Press, NBC News hack Kristen Welker pressed newly sworn-in Attorney General Todd Blanche to “pledge that the Justice Department will always act independently of the White House.” The fake “journalist” performed this bit of moralizing theater with her “very serious” face, as if to suggest that the nation’s survival depended upon Blanche’s answer. Blanche calmly swatted Welker’s solicitation away, while pointing out that no competent, law-abiding attorney general should ever make such an absurd pledge.

As I recall pointing out recently on this very blog.

It was another ridiculous moment in “journalism” and reminded viewers that the biggest names in corporate news are stupid, partisan, and duplicitous. Why would Welker believe that she is entitled to demand some kind of public oath from the attorney general? Why does she think the United States should have an “independent” Department of Justice? Does she not understand that the DOJ is part of the Executive Branch? Is she not aware that AG Blanche serves in President Trump’s cabinet? Does she not realize that Trump is his boss? Does she not grasp that AG Blanche is now seventh in the presidential line of succession?

Oh, are we making a list?

Many idiot “reporters” ran to social media so that they could be seen collapsing on their digital fainting couches. “Pretty amazing confession here by the AG,” moron Chuck Todd whimpered before further whining, “Still can’t believe he was confirmed. I guess he gets points for being honest?” Yes, Chuck, it is stunning that the attorney general recognizes his constitutional obligation to serve the president of the United States. AG Blanche has “confessed” that he is not a rogue dictator empowered to run the Department of Justice by kingly prerogative. (Be careful kids: Mixing too much Kristen Welker and Chuck Todd in the same Kool-Aid punch bowl will kill millions of brain cells.)

Read it.

Not all Muslims are terrorists—but it’s amazing how many terrorists are Muslims.

Or maybe not….

Watch it.

We have the technology.

Read it.

This is obviously God telling us not to eat Mexican food.

Plain as the nose on your face.]

Or the pain in your gut….

Read it.

I doubt that there are any Republicans in that group.

Read it. 

Think of it as democracy in action.

Read it.

Neither is James Talarico.

Neither, I am prepared to argue, is any Democrat, professions and protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.

Read it.

A temporary monument displaying the names of more than 41 million Americans who have served in the U.S. military will remain on the National Mall through Nov. 12 following an overwhelming response from visitors.

The National Military Monument, presented by the United Services Automobile Association, or USAA, opened July 28 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

USAA announced Tuesday that the National Park Service had approved a 10-week extension of the installation, which had been scheduled to close in early September.

Newsbusters.

As the left and right try to define their opposition ahead of November’s midterm elections, the media are clearly taking sides. According to a new NewsBusters analysis, the media has condemned conservatives and Republicans 86 percent of the time when they compare Democrats to communists or jihadists. However, when liberals compare Republicans to Nazis and fascists, only five percent of such analogies were rebuked.

For this study, NewsBusters analyzed all news programming from PBS, MS NOW, and CNN as well as the morning and evening newscasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC from August 1 through August 15.

The Foundry.

A new study estimates that Democrats’ proposal to increase the federal minimum wage to $25/hour would cost the U.S. economy 5 million jobs and especially harm workers ages 16 to 24.

“Politicians on the Left are making empty promises that minimum wage hikes will magically fix the cost of living crisis without doing their research,” Rebekah Paxton, research director at the Employment Policies Institute, told the Daily Signal in a statement Thursday.

“The vast majority of economists agree these mandates will kill jobs, leaving families without the paychecks they depend on,” she added. “Here’s the truth: Sky-high mandates will only make life more unaffordable for millions of Americans.”

The market price is the market price, Every attempt to manipulate prices politically (whether called ‘price controls’ or ‘minimum wages’) leads either to rationing or ‘black-marketeering’. The result of minimum wage laws is that low-skilled workers who aren’t worth that minimum to an employer get no jobs at all. Markets work as markets work, and they don’t care about your legislation or political fantasies.

Read it.

The co-founder of the Democrat fundraising juggernaut ActBlue invoked the Fifth Amendment in a closed-door deposition before three House committees, sources familiar with the matter told the Daily Signal.

Matt DeBergalis, co-founder of the platform, appeared before the House Judiciary Committee, the House Administration Committee, and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday morning to answer questions about alleged fraudulent donations. The deposition lasted fewer than 30 minutes.

House committees, as well as the Justice Department, are investigating whether ActBlue has adequately policed fraudulent donations through its portal, particularly illegal foreign donations. The organization has denied any wrongdoing and called the investigations politically motivated.

The American Mind.

Widespread use of the word “meritocracy” may only be possible in the world it describes. British sociologist and former Labour Party official Michael Young coined the term in a 1958 satire as a sly alternative to aristocracy, clumsily mixing Latin (mereo: to deserve) with Greek (kratos: power, rule). Young’s friend, a classicist, warned he would be “laughed to scorn” for employing such a barbarism. Her caution was, sadly, optimistic.

Nonetheless, meritocracy’s advocates have attempted to supply it with a noble lineage. Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio and former presidential candidate, is convinced the 20th-century term is central to the American experiment going back to 1776. Palantir’s Jordan Chandler Hirsch likewise argues that America was “born meritorious,” defining meritocracy as when government and society operate through objective measures of “quality and talent, open competition based on fair play, and ruthless disinterest in any other factor.”

Yet by Hirsch’s own definition, today’s “objective” meritocracy has little to do with the founding generation’s ideas. As his own source, historian Joseph Kett, describes, “The Founders viewed a man’s public character, his reputation among his peers, as the outward measure of his essential merit…. Nothing would have astonished the Men of Merit more than to be told to take an examination to measure their character.” Indeed, in the founding era there were no standardized examinations, grades, or entrance exams for public service. When Thomas Jefferson spoke of a “natural aristocracy,” he meant one distinguished by “virtue and talents,” not paper credentials and background checks.

The ‘competitive examination’, as satirized in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe, especially for the civil service, started Britain on the road to being ruled by Sir Humphrey Applegate and his brethren.

The economic flaw with meritocracy is that it implies a labor theory of value. Markets reward scarcity and demand, not deservingness. As George Mason University economist Alex Tabarrok explains, “A wage is a price”—it does not signify moral worth but guides action. Forcing markets to become genuinely meritocratic therefore would require a powerful administrative state to direct the economy, much like China’s own allegedly meritocratic system.

The world doesn’t owe you anything for your merit. The world has needs; if you can meet those needs, whatever your ‘merit’, you will be embraced by the world. If not, the world will pass you by.

It is no accident that the Democratic Party’s most radical constituency consists of post-grads with relatively modest incomes.

Exactly so.

The New Neo.

But the working class in the US doesn’t seem to think so; they don’t vote for the DSA candidates, for the most part. The DSA gets its support from the dissatisfied and yet well-educated scions of the comfortable and wealthy.

Trust fund kids have no problems with socialism. Somebody else has been paying their bills all of their lives, and so they want the same treatment from the government. Arrested adolescents, the lot of ’em.

Newsbusters.

Women on the Left have no hesitation in attacking women, so long as they are Not On The Left—and sometimes even when they are. It all depends on how many Diversity Pokemon Points the target has and who winds the Virtue Signaling Stakes.

The Atlantic.

David Frum was once a conservative writer for National Review, as Joe Scarborough was a Republican Congressman. Both Saw The Light And Cashed In.

Read it.

Social Security is fundamentally an intergenerational transfer program. It is not a personal savings account in which each of us has accumulated a pot of money earmarked exclusively for our own retirement. “Our” Social Security payroll taxes were immediately distributed as benefits to then-current retirees. Payroll taxes collected today are used primarily to pay benefits to today’s beneficiaries. To make that clear … today, the Social Security benefits we retirees receive come mainly from our kids’ Social Security taxes. In turn, the benefits today’s workers eventually receive will depend largely on the contributions of future workers.

That distinction matters.

Read it.

Gee, I wonder why?

Read it.

It is true that OPD is severely understaffed by hundreds of officers. Mayor Barbara Lee is attempting to shrink the staffing gap, with plans to increase the number of officers.

But historical data throws into question whether increasing staffing will rectify OPD’s chronic overtime overspending. A recent report by several civilian city unions found that over the past 15 years, even when department staffing increased, overtime continued to go up. From 2011 to 2024, staffing increased by nearly 9%. Over the same period, overtime went up by almost 200%.

Recent financial pressures have caused the city to lay off scores of civilian employees and freeze spending across a range of programs. Meanwhile, the number of police officers bringing in six-figure overtime packages rose dramatically.

Read it.

I used to get one of those meal delivery kits sent to my house, the kind that comes with a new recipe card every week. It ended up being a great way to learn how to cook, different techniques, little tips, methods I never would’ve picked up just winging it on my own.

What none of those recipe cards ever really nailed though was the format itself, long blocks of text you had to read start to finish just to figure out when to add the eggs.

Turns out someone solved that problem decades ago.

Too lazy to do the work? (Me! Me!) Go here.

Read it.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Read it.

The same voices who demand “fairness” and insist every community must share the burden of mass illegal migration suddenly discover local democracy the moment the coaches might stop near their postcode.

A Mail on Sunday poll has laid bare the gap between principle and practice. Just 15 percent of people are happy with the idea of more illegal migrants arriving in their own area. Fifty-seven percent actively oppose it.

Yet many of those who back Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s call for affluent and rural places to “play their part” draw a firm line at their own front door.

Read it.

In Islam, there is no separation between mosque and state. The goal is to use the state to make everyone submit to Islam. If you want to see what this looks like, just check out almost any country in the Middle East that has a Muslim majority. They don’t believe in freedom of speech or freedom of religion. Do you want to know how many churches there are in Saudi Arabia? The answer is zero, because churches are banned in Saudi Arabia. Now this same ideology is spreading in America, and that should deeply alarm all of us.

Read it.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been frantically trying to restart a presidential campaign that appears moribund, with polls showing him losing in some states to figures such as Pete Buttigieg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

In his absence, his multibillion-dollar high-speed train also seems to be going nowhere fast. A new report from the state inspector general revealed that the train will be delayed again and that the public is being kept in the dark about ongoing problems with Newsom’s signature project. Oh, and one more thing: the project will run out of money by December 2027.

Read it.

The chief reason to eliminate the rich is because their kids all turn out to be socialists.

Read it.

The following German video examines the case of a single African migrant who, after years of legal process, simply cannot be deported, because he has no documents and consistently lies about his country of origin.

Multiply this example by the millions of migrants who have flooded the country in the last ten or fifteen years, and it becomes clear that the future prospects for the Country Formerly Known as the Bundesrepublik Deutschland are grim indeed.

Read it.

A federal regulation intended to combat workplace racial discrimination has become a weapon for the race-obsessed diversity, equity, and inclusion movement—but President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to get rid of it.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, has required specific employers to file an annual report summarizing data on their employees’ race and sex. The regulations currently apply to more than two million employers, at an estimated cost of $275 million each year and $4 million for the agency to administer the data collection.

While the government required this data collection to prevent racial discrimination, it has arguably undermined the key goal of securing a colorblind workplace.

EEOC Chair Andrea R. Lucas said in July that the reports require data collection “disconnected from any allegation of a Title VII violation or related commission enforcement proceeding,” and thus “stand in direct tension with Title VII’s requirement that employment practices be colorblind.”

Read it.

The higher education racket is being exposed in America as diminishing standards, collapsing public trust, and a cult-like, often unlawful devotion to DEI ideology pushes its mid-20th century model past the point of breaking.

For several generations, going to a premier public or private university provided a smooth path to success for most Americans.

Sure, plenty of people made money by starting businesses—and a handful of entrepreneurs became monumentally wealthy—but for most Americans looking to get going on a good, high-paying, rewarding career, going to college was the path to success.

Now that path isn’t guaranteed and hasn’t been for decades. Employers have begun to view degrees from once-prestigious schools, even advanced degrees, as irrelevant or a marginal advantage at best.

These overproduced pseudo-elites—many of whom are high on self-esteem but short on what they see as an equivalent paycheck—constitute the foot soldiers of the angry, fanatical DSA class.

The hordes of frustrated college grads will undoubtedly shape American politics in coming years. But what of the colleges and universities that produced them?

Watch it.

Pearl Davis speaks truth to fantasy.

Watch it.

Tim Pool explains what is going on.

Just as the old Soviet Union didn’t bother to follow its own laws and constitution, Minnesota Democrats appear to think that they can ignore the law and constitution whenever it benefits a Magic Negro.

Read it.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

Newsbusters.

The auto-pen writes, and, having written, moves on.

Read it.

Well, what else was he going to do with them?

$53 million to settle lawsuits from families whose loved ones’ donated remains were allegedly sold on the black market by former morgue manager Cedric Lodge.

Those Facebook Marketplace sales can be pretty awkward, so hopefully this body salesman didn’t go that route!

Yuk yuk! Get it? ‘Black market’?

New York Post.

‘Virginia Man’? No. He was a Tajik. From Tajikistan. That’s like arresting an American in Mexico and calling him “Mexican Man”.

Who the fuck gives a mental patient, an actual murderer, a 48-hour pass? Who?

Did they leave him his passport? How else did he ‘flee the U.S.’?

Worse on Purpose.

Over the past two centuries the things we buy were quietly rebuilt so that most of what determines their quality exists where no buyer can see it. At the same time, we lost the skills that enabled us to judge quality on the parts that still show.

Both losses have a single cause.

On the maker’s side, production withdrew into factories and distant trades. When things were made in the household or the town, the manufacturing processes sat in plain sight. We knew what went into the objects we owned because we saw them being produced. Now the things that determine whether a product will last are completely hidden from view.

Meanwhile, the same forces pushed each of us deeper into narrower fields of work. We do one thing for a living and outsource the rest. But the ability to judge how well a thing is made comes from having made things. The fewer kinds of things we make, the fewer kinds of things we can judge.

That’s Atlanta drug trafficker Walter Lee Muhammad, whose prison sentence for dealing fentanyl was shortened by Joe Biden by way of a pardon.

Read it.

Wow, what are the odds?