Severian points out some inconvenient truth.

Like every American-American (that’s my new hyphenated victim group name for “normal White people”) who has at least one ancestor from The Auld Sod, I have an uncle whose hobby is Irishness. Uncle Paddy, as we’ll call him, can be a real nosebleed about it; I’m still banned from certain family gatherings for having set him off by mentioning a few jejune truths about 19th century European history. Nonetheless, so long as you don’t step too hard on sore toes, Uncle Paddy is loads of fun. He’s easy to shop for at Christmas, at least. In short, he’s the best kind of “Irishman” — the kind who only believes his own blarney when he wants to.* It keeps him occupied in his golden years, and so long as you can keep yourself from laughing whenever he goes into ecstasies over his beloved Fighting Irish football team signing a not-exactly-Hibernian running back with a name like Cthulhuvious Smith III, it’s all harmless…

…but it’s harmless because, and only because, everyone knows where Uncle Paddy’s realloyalties lie. Like every other “Irish” hobbyist I’ve met in America, he has no idea who the political leadership of Ireland are, and the idea that he’d take orders from some gay Pajeet (or whoever the PM is now) is ludicrous. Ditto the Pope — though Uncle Paddy is, of course, the kind of “Irish Catholic” who hangs a photo of JFK meeting St. John XXIII in the kitchen (then remarks how nice it was of His Holiness, to let the Bishop of Rome be in the picture like that), the idea of Uncle Paddy going against one of the family on the orders of that goddamned Marxist Bergoglio is even more laughable.

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An animal shelter in Chicago has released over 1,000 feral cats onto Chicago streets since 2012 to help fight the city’s rat infestation.

The Tree House Humane Society spays or neuters the cats after capturing them and then releases the cats into residential and commercial areas, according to the shelter’s website.

ZMan looks at the center ring.

It is an iron law of the universe that the Left’s favorite right-winger is whoever currently has his hand on the knife firmly planted in the back of conservative voters. Nothing titillates the Left more than seeing one of their imagined enemies giving another imagined enemy the business. In the Trump years, they were spoiled for choice, as one “conservative” after another took their turn condemning the evil orange man. Now that Trump is gone, the party is turning their knives on one another.

This week the odious Liz Cheney is expected to be removed from her position as conference chair. She was put in that position because her father, the warmongering lunatic Dick Cheney, used his connections to get her in the House and then into the leadership of the conference. Like all ne’er-do-well children of successful politicians, Liz Cheney has a serious case of entitlement. Instead of going out with dignity, she embarrassed herself one last time with a tantrum on the House floor.

The Other McCain is not happy.

Falling Down is a classic — some of the scenes are funny as hell, in a dark way — and what is the message? It’s about incentives.

Why should we play by the rules, if the rules don’t work? What is the incentive to be a good citizen — an honest, hard-working taxpayer — if the system does not reward you for compliance with the rules?

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Partly because COVID led many graduating high school students to defer applying to college last year, this year’s college application numbers set a record. This may turn out to be a last hurrah for the old college model, however, as colleges are on the brink of a demographic cliff. The decline in the U.S. birth rate that accelerated during the housing finance crash of 2008 is expected to diminish the pool of college-bound students starting in the next few years. And if Democrats succeed in making community colleges and state colleges cheaper or free, how will private tuition-dependent colleges fare? Likely not well.

Andrew Yang Shows Support For Israel, Sparks #YangSupportsGenocide On Twitter

“His Womanizing Was Well Known”: Flood-‘Gates’ Open As Biographer Details Microsoft Founder’s Salacious Past  I guess it’s time to cancel Bill Gates.

Ivy League Librarian Criticizes Her Own Workplace, Says Libraries ‘Have A Fraught History’ Of Racism  I’ll bet you didn’t know that libraries are racist.

Michigan Student Government Uses Hamas Attacks to Push Anti-Israel BDS Movement

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: US Is Becoming More Like ‘Tribal’ African Clans In Large Part Due To Woke Culture

Of Course, Evolution Is Racist

People Are Upset Tim Tebow Is Back In The NFL Instead Of Colin Kaepernick

Black Man Disguised Himself As White Guy To Go On Burglary Spree, Police Say

Senate Democrats Consider Forming BIPOC Caucus  I have never seen a picture of Halfrican Cory Booker in which his eyes didn’t bug out.

Entire Public School Board Freaks Out From Critical Race Theory Ban In Oklahoma, Member Blames ‘White Fragility’

‘View’ Bows Down to ‘Expert’ Abrams: Educate Us on How GOP Is Taking Away Voting Rights!

Tebow, Kaepernick To Compete In Epic Kneeling Contest For Spot On NFL Team  Babylon Bee.

Failed Erotic Novelist Stacey Abrams Gets TV Deal For Latest Book

Rapper Soulja Boy Facing Lawsuit From Ex-Girlfriend For Sexual Battery, Assault  Pat Boone never had this problem.

Brewery creates nasty ‘Torched Earth Ale’ to show how climate change will affect beer taste

Being Woke Stinks: NYT Says Americans Should Take Fewer Showers for Environment

China Suggests Greta Thunberg is an Ignorant Political Puppet

Farmer Discovers 5 Migrant Girls All By Themselves In Texas, Including One Crawling Without Any Clothes

Colbert to Tapper: Isn’t It Great How ‘Moderate’ ‘Boring’ Biden Is Compared to Trump?

New York Times Covers for Biden: Bad Jobs Numbers a ‘Real Fluke’

White House Task Force Is Payoff to Biden’s Union Cronies

NYT Claims ‘There Have Been No Long Lines’ For Gas As People Post Photos, Videos Of Long Lines For Gas

Biden Facing Bipartisan Blowback Over Violence in Jerusalem

Hedge Funds Descend On Puerto Rico As Biden Tax Threat Looms

Chelsea Clinton Calls For Global Crackdown On “Anti-Vax” Social Media Posts  The turd doesn’t fall far from the anus.

Welcome To The Socialist Paradise Of California

China Demands Cancellation of UN Meeting on Uyghurs

CBS Gives Away the Game: Hey Stacey Abrams, How Does Voting Bill Help Dems in 2022?

‘Shift In Narratives’: China Boosting Twitter Support With Bot Accounts Cheering On Their Officials

MEHLMAN: Senate Democrats Ponder Back Door Tactic To Gain Amnesty For Illegal Aliens

Top Cardinal Warns Bishops About Rebuking Pro-Abortion Biden

Univision Goes All-Out To Save Gavin Newsom

‘I Plan To Ignore It’: Tennessee Teachers Criticize Critical Race Theory Ban At Public Schools, Say It Will Harm Students  This may be the final nail in the coffin of public education – the only kids in public schools will be those too poor to afford an alternative.

DC Is Making Bars Wait Another Month To Open At Full Capacity Despite Record Low Daily COVID-19 Case Numbers  That’s what you get when Democrats run your city.

Government To Approve Hugging And Kissing In England

The Geography of COVID-19

Rockefeller Foundation Bankrolls COVID-19 Commission Led by Beijing Sympathizer

McDonald’s Partners With White House To Place Vaccine Ads On Its Coffee Cups, Delivery Stickers

AOC Cries At Taj Mahal After Racist Travel Ban  Babylon Bee.

Unhinged Leftist Bette Midler Threatens To Kill Unvaccinated Kids  Well, not really, but still….

Susan Collins Says The Golden Era Of Respect She Once Had For The CDC Is Over

Key HHS Agency Officer: Annual COVID Booster Shots May Be Needed  Let’s keep those pharma donations flowing….

Watch: Sen. Paul Shreds Fauci Over ‘Gain-Of-Function’ Funding  They keep forgetting that Rand Paul is a doctor, too.

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And about time, too.

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Over the weekend the Los Angeles Times detailed the tearful struggle of being grotesquely obese in the age of COVID-19. ‘Chrystal Bougon cried after the needle went into her arm. Not because her first dose of the Moderna vaccine hurt. But because, finally, being fat actually paid off,’ the article begins. ‘Her experience with medical providers has been one incident of size stigma after another, she said, like the time she went in with a scratched cornea and was told to lose weight. She fears being hospitalized with COVID-19 and unable to advocate for herself.’

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

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Ireland nowadays seems filled with people who are content to ignore, forget, or step around what’s left of Catholicism, including the actual church buildings themselves. Don’t be fooled by the shaky residual attachment to things like First Holy Communion. As I write, almost uniquely in Europe under COVID, Ireland has made offering or attending Mass a criminal offense. Even outdoor confession is illegal. This is the true measure of how things stand.

To quote my grandmother Brennan: ‘All of the people worth anything left. There’s nobody there but losers and the descendants of losers.’

Severian is delightfully dyspeptic today.

If the Covidians were really freaking out about COVID, then, I’d expect one of two broad types of reaction: Either party-hearty midlife crisis mode, or a new determination to get on with whatever’s left of life. Obviously neither of those are true, and I just can’t grasp it — these might be your last few weeks on Earth, and that’s how you’re going to spend them? Sitting in your apartment like a sheep, wearing a mask and eating takeout, glued to a computer screen?

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The studies are all part of a political science cottage industry that purports to “measure” democracy, often with support from government-funded NGOs. Freedom House and the Polity Project—funded by Congress and the CIA respectively—have both devised widely used indexes for quantifying democratic performance, as has the Sweden-based V-Dem Institute. Linking these indexes together is the idea that democracy is not just in the eye of the beholder; it’s something scholars can measure empirically.

But in practice, most political scientists just seem to be measuring their own biases, which are then passed off as impartial, statistical truths. Beneath each metric of democracy is an implicit definition of it, an account of what democracy is or should be. And when the media report on these metrics, they often omit the assumptions and values underpinning them—reinforcing the veneer of objectivity the metrologists project.

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The Biden administration adopted a new rule Monday that could force Catholic hospitals, religious doctors, and other objectors to perform sex changes.

Not bad for a ‘devout Catholic’.

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Pretty sad.

Spaniards Celebrate Curfew End With ‘Freedom’ Fiestas

Fauci: “Possible” That Mask Mandates Could Last Indefinitely To Fight Flu  Dude, we’ve got all these masks in the warehouse….

China Accused of Dumping ‘Ultra-Cheap Masks’ Into U.S. Market  Does this surprise anyone?

Fauci must answer for his role in Wuhan’s COVID lab Oh, like that will ever happen.

A Look At The GOP From Inside A Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene Rally (NPR) You can almost smell the ‘Direct from Nuremberg’ vibe….

Republicans tried to overturn the election. We can’t just forget that (The Guardian) And the Democrats succeeded in stealing the election. We can’t forget that, either.

People of color have a new enemy: techno-racism (CNN) You can’t make this stuff up.

When Trump’s Next Coup Happens, the Republican Party Will Fully Support It (New York Magazine)

The Republican rebrand, exposed (Salon)

Chris Wallace Confronts GOP Rep: ‘Is It a Lie the Election Was Stolen?’ (Daily Beast)

Facebook Used UN Speech Codes to Ban Trump

‘Patriot’ Julia Louis-Dreyfus: ‘This Past Election Frightened Me,’ GOP ‘Lost Their Minds’

Professor Suspended After Denying Canada Is A Racist Country And Criticizing BLM

NBC Drops Next Year’s Golden Globes Over Diversity Row

Ocasio-Cortez Berated, Falsely Accused Border Patrol Agent, Memos Say

REPORT: Tom Cruise Gives Back Golden Globes, NBC Announces It Will Not Host 2022 Awards Show

Federal Student Loan Chief Allegedly Facilitated Racist, Sexist Work Environment at CFPB  CFPB is, of course, Fauxcohontas’s baby.

The New Scientific Method: Identity Politics

Prominent Russiagate Promoter To Join Justice Department

First Hundred Days

How Biden’s Open-Border Policies Are Worsening Scourge of Human Trafficking

Lawmakers Demand State Dept. Revoke Security Clearance for Appointee Tied to Iranian Regime

Lawmakers Demand State Dept. Revoke Security Clearance for Appointee Tied to Iranian Regime

Miniature root vegetables and dandelion leaves ‘to replace potatoes and lettuce because of climate change’

Bad Weather Forecasts Are a Climate Crisis Disaster  (Wired ‘Science’)

Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction  That would explain a  lot.

Something Smells Fishy: Allegations of Fraud in Ocean Acidification Research

$1000 / ton Carbon Tax? Climate Scientist Demands the Alleged Damage of Fossil Fuel be Fully Priced

Why the toughest capitalists should root for a wealth tax (Financial Times) I can think of several reasons, not one of which would ever be published.

Union Leadership Evaded Pay Cuts as Pandemic Devastated Membership

Biden’s chief of staff says infrastructure proposal isn’t “big government”  And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

MSNBC’s Ruhle: Jobs Numbers Show U.S. Needs to Spend an Additional $4 Trillion  Unclear on the concept.

Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China

Ex-Weightlifter: Women Told To ‘Be Quiet’ About Transgender Athlete’s Inclusion On Olympic Team

Oh, Look: It’s Time for Another 18 Minute CBS Donation to the Obamas

‘Inclusive’ Math Dumbs Down Curriculum, Fails Students Who Need Help Most  California used to have one of the best education systems in the country. They appear determined to achieve the worst.

“This Must Stop!” One Father’s Fight Against Pervasive Entrenchment Of Critical Race Theory In America’s Schools

‘That Book Is Talking Down To Me’: Columbia Professor Says ‘Antiracism’ Book’s Message Is To ‘Tiptoe’ Around Black People

Black Mothers Matter

CBS Urges Stacey Abrams Presidential Run After She ‘Got Even’ With GOP  Sure, we all need a fat ugly Karen as President.

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Sorry, but the Meghan&Harry Show are not my go-to people for mental health advice.

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Everybody is coming to Texas. I’m expecting Claude Rains next.

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As it turns out, there really is an app for that.

I know people like this. I wish I didn’t.

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For the uninitiated, nudging is the idea of using psychological principles to give people a gentle bump in the right direction, rather than forcing compliance. For example, we tend to stick with the status quo, since it is easy, and this is why the government has had so much success with auto-enrolment for pensions and organ donation.

The Other McCain decides to vent a little.

One of the phrases I hate is “working mothers,” which is often deployed in such a way as to stigmatize stay-at-home mothers. Ever since the rise of the feminist movement in the late 1960s, liberals have promoted the idea that women must have careers — not just jobs, but professional careers — in order to deserve admiration or praise. In order to have a career, it follows logically, women must go to college and ever since the late 1970s, women have been a majority of college students and are now about 56% of undergraduate enrollment. The result has been a disaster in demographic terms because, as the old saying goes, “Fertility delayed is fertility denied.” That is to say, from the day a girl reaches menarche, she has a fixed number of potential reproductive opportunities — in a healthy female, 12 cycles a year for about 25 years from ages 15 to 40, or roughly 300 lifetime chances to become pregnant. If she does not become a mother as a teenager (and middle-class America adamantly believes that teenage motherhood is the worst of all possible fates), this means her reproductive opportunities are reduced to about 240 — 12 menstrual cycles per year for about 20 years. Thus, every year that she delays motherhood represents a reduction in her total fertility.

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There’s no shortage of dinosaur myths. Paleontologist Dave Hone recently compiled a list of eight persistent falsehoods over at the Guardian–from the misapprehension that all dinosaurs were huge to the untenable idea that Tyrannosaurus could only scavenge its meals–but there was one particular misunderstanding that caught my attention. For decades, popular articles and books claimed that the armor-plated Stegosaurus and the biggest of the sauropod dinosaurs had second brains in their rumps. These dinosaurs, it was said, could reason “a posteriori” thanks to the extra mass of tissue. It was a cute idea, but a totally wrong hypothesis that actually underscores a different dinosaur mystery.

The sleazy, sordid Matt Gaetz scandal: are the walls now closing in on him? (The Guardian) The ongoing attempt to cancel Matt Gaetz.

Antony Blinken Continues to Lecture the World on Values His Administration Aggressively Violates  Glenn Greenwald.

The Paycheck Protection Program Is Officially Out Of Money  Who cares? We’ll just have the Fed print more money! After all, it’s free!

German Judge: Corona Measures Violate the Rule of Law

Geneology of SARS COV2 proves it’s probably lab made

Mom Hate: ABC Decries Vaccinated Traveling, Gathering on Mother’s Day

Polish Pastor Who Went Viral For Kicking Police Out Of Church Arrested For Holding ‘Illegal’ Religious Service

Former FDA Boss Tells CBS It’s Time to End Mask Mandates in ‘Wholesale Fashion’

DC Mayor Bans Dancing At Weddings… & Other Absurdities

Fauci Floats ‘Seasonal’ Mask Wearing In NBC Interview  Dude, we got all these masks in the warehouse….

Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership (NPR) They’re so oppressed.

Disney asks employees to complete ‘white privilege checklist’ and insists US was founded on ‘systemic racism’, leaked documents show

Three Shot In Times Square Including Four-Year-Old Girl

Why Is the Current Murder Surge Concentrated in Black Neighborhoods?

Massive Brawl Breaks Out In Wild Viral Video

Migration to US Debunks ‘Racist Country’ Myth

NY Times Profiles Sore-Loser Stacey Abrams: ‘A Star Multitasker’s Latest Chapter’

AZ Senate Ditches Insane Election Audit Measure After DOJ Steps In (Daily Beast)

Elizabeth Warren’s Book Shows She Has No Idea Why Her Campaign Failed (New York Magazine)

‘No one wants to work anymore’: the truth behind this unemployment benefits myth (The Guardian)

Woman taking her ’emotional support’ PIG for a walk is accosted by FURIOUS Karen (Daily Mail)

Beef Control! NPR Promotes New York Times Food Writer’s ‘War on Meat’

Even Elon Musk couldn’t make SNL funny

SNL Cast Getting Stage Fright As They’re Not Used To Having People Tune In To Watch Them  Babylon Bee.

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi: It’s a LIE to Say Democrats Will ‘Turn America Into a Socialist Country’  But it’s not a lie to say that they want to.

School board races enter crucible of partisan politics  Parents are finally waking up to what teachers’ unions are doing to their children.

Disney Caught Indoctrinating Employees With Critical Race Theory, “White Privilege” Checklist

GLAAD finds top social media sites “categorically unsafe” for LGBTQ people

Fantastic Findings: German Study Shows Added CO2 Has Led To 14% More Vegetation Over Past 100 Years!

Why Models Can’t Predict Temperature: A History Of Failure

The not-so-drastic truth behind climate change  (Asia Times)

Compressed Air Grid ‘Battery’ To Challenge Tesla Powerpack   Of course, the problem with hydrogen and compressed air is that you are essentially driving around in a bomb looking for a place to happen.

The ECB’s climate models are built on obsolete scenarios

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Another Blue State atrocity.

Under the Sailer Rule, the high death count suggests that the perp was white, although we may never know because ‘journalists’ aren’t allowed to mention race any more unless there’s a Fashionable Minority victim.

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The team built the 60 square meter (roughly 645 square feet) prototype house with local soil in a zero-waste construction process. It didn’t require any materials to be transported to the site, avoiding the environmental impact of transportation. The 350-layer 3D-printed house was built with 60 cubic meters of natural material.

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The cyberextortion attempt that has forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline was carried out by a criminal gang known as DarkSide that cultivates a Robin Hood image of stealing from corporations and giving a cut to charity, a person close to the investigation said Sunday.

I’m sure that they think of themselves as Social Justice Warriors.

UPDATE: The dark side of DarkSide

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The dismissive attitude scientists have toward psychologists isn’t rooted in snobbery; it’s rooted in intellectual frustration. It’s rooted in the failure of psychologists to acknowledge that they don’t have the same claim on secular truth that the hard sciences do. It’s rooted in the tired exasperation that scientists feel when non-scientists try to pretend they are scientists.

 

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When? the Ever Given wedged itself into the side of the Suez Canal on 23 March, many, many people were annoyed and upset. The ship’s as yet unnamed captain and all-Indian crew, for a start: it’s going to be interesting to see what the inquiry concludes not just about the grounding, but also about the giant penis the Ever Given drew on satellite tracking before sailing into the canal. It was also a definitively bad day for the Egyptian pilots who were in charge of the ship during its passage through the canal. Also annoyed and upset: everyone stuck on board the several hundred ships waiting to go through. Everyone worried about the stupefyingly diverse cargo on board all these ships: oil, of course, but also many tons of the world’s most mined commodity (can you guess? It’s sand); and, of course, everything else, from widgets to trainers to computers, from coffee to consoles, from plastic crap of all types to medicines to, well, everything. Since 12 per cent of global trade passes through the canal, the economic damage caused by its closure was significant: a boggling $9.6 billion a day.

Of course, if that canal were in a First World country, it would long since have been widened so that such a thing was less likely to happen. Unfortunately, it is being run by Turd World rent-seekers who couldn’t build such a thing if their lives depended on it, but can only profit from the efforts of ‘colonialists’ from 150 years ago.

And then there’s a smaller community of people who, while not exactly glad to hear about the Ever Given, welcomed the opportunity it presents for consciousness-raising. This is the group who see shipping as the great ignored subject at the centre of the global economy. The truth is that shipping is responsible, as Rose George put it in the subtitle of her classic 2013 book on the subject, for ‘90 Per Cent of Everything’. It is the physical equivalent of the internet, the other industry which makes globalisation possible. The internet abolishes national boundaries for information, news, data; shipping abolishes these boundaries for physical goods. The main way it does this is by being almost incomprehensibly efficient and cheap. As George points out, if you’re having a sweater shipped from the other side of the planet, the cost of shipping adds just a cent to the price. Another way of putting it would be to say that shipping is, in practice, free. This has had the effect of abolishing geography and location as an economic factor: moving stuff from A to B is so cheap that, for most goods, there is no advantage in siting manufacturing anywhere near your customers. Instead, you make whatever it is where it’s cheapest, and ship it to them instead. As Marc Levinson wrote in The Box (2006), his unexpectedly thrilling book about the container industry, shipping is so cheap it has ‘changed the shape of the world economy’.

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One target of cancellation who is able to speak intelligently about it is Jordan Peterson, the University of Toronto clinical psychologist, YouTube lecturer, and author of “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos” (2018) and “Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life,” published in March.

If you’re an ordinary curious person, Mr. Peterson won’t strike you as a likely target for moral outrage. He brings together a dizzying array of texts and traditions—Jungian psychoanalysis, the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, Frederick Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard and much else—to formulate basic lessons, or “rules,” about how humans might overcome their natural tendency to lassitude and savagery. His books, podcasts and lectures are impressively argued, frequently insightful and occasionally abrasive presentations of various principles of wise living.

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First implemented in London in 1853, the technology quickly spread. Berlin began its Rohrpost in 1865, Vienna in 1867, and Marseilles in 1894, followed by most other major European cities. Brazil, Argentina, and Australia introduced tubes not long after. Philadelphia and New York implemented pneumatic tube service for first-class letters in 1893 and 1897, respectively, and a pneumatic tube line ran over the Brooklyn Bridge. Urban pneumatic tube installations existed for a surprisingly long time, remaining in opera- tion until 1953 in New York and even 2002 in Prague (where the system was taken out of service only after a flood destroyed much of the tube infrastructure). They have also long operated as internal conduits for paper and other material in post offices, department stores, and warehouses, and are still manufactured and used for this purpose today in hospitals, banks, stores, and libraries. (In fact, in a particularly serendipitous moment, some of the research requests for this very article trav- eled by pneumatic tube in the New York Public Library.)

I remember, growing up in the ’50s, visiting a department store in the local Big City in the train of my mother and seeing paper being shuffled around via pneumatic tubes.

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An oil tanker off Syria’s Mediterranean port of Banias has been hit with an explosion Sunday, resulting in a fire on board which was reportedly extinguished soon after.

There were reportedly no casualties, but subsequent photographs showed large plumes of black smoke rising above the tanker, which may have been engaged in offloading its cargo. The ‘mystery’ blast comes after a series of alleged Israeli covert attacks against both Iranian and Syrian ships believed engaged in “sanctions-busting” activity related to Washington-led anti-Assad measures.

The Other McCain points to the elephant in the room.

We all know what “diversity” means, even if we’re not allowed to say it plainly. “Diversity” in hiring or college admissions would not be controversial if it were, as proponents claim, merely about finding qualified women and POC (“people of color”) for prestige positions. Instead, what “diversity” actually means in practice is a secretive system of quotas where women and POC are hired (or admitted to elite schools) without regard to their relative qualifications. “Diversity” means a lowering of standard in the name of “equality,” and anyone who objects is smeared as a racist, sexist, homophobe. Occasionally, however, the problems with the “diversity” regime become so apparent that even well-mannered people can’t help but complain.

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The spinelessness of the American Roman Catholic hierarchy with respect to nominal Catholics who publicly espouse policies flatly contrary to Catholic moral teaching has been egregious ever since it started in the wake of the ‘modernization’ following the Second Vatican Council. I am not the only cradle Roman Catholic who has left because of this scandalous history.