Steve Sailer.

I was going to write another heavy duty current events data analysis column, but then I got distracted and/or lazy, so this essay is going to wander off to a more fun topic.

When I saw the headline that senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) had finally announced she would retire in 2025 at age 91, I got to thinking about just how slowly the Democrats’ old white leaders have been put out to pasture to make way for the diverse next generation of politicians.

Joe Biden, who hopes to stay in office until he’s 86, is only the most obvious example of the Democrats’ recent tendency toward white gerontocracy, perhaps out of fear that its nonwhite politicians still aren’t ready for the big stage.

John Stossel.

After a recent hurricane, Puerto Ricans desperately needed fuel.
Fortunately, an oil tanker was right offshore.
Unfortunately, the United States government forbade it to come ashore!
Why?
Because of a stupid law with a stupid name: The Jones Act.
The Jones Act forbids shipping anything between American ports in ships that are not U.S. built and crewed. This makes goods cost more (the average Hawaii family must pay $1,800 more a year) and sometimes, as happened in Puerto Rico, makes a crisis worse.

Read it.

Apparently, the four happy hornographers in this case studied a huge heap of historical photos and etchings in the repository of images maintained by the Netherlands-based Rhino Research Centre to reach their conclusion. Clearly, “Come up and look at my horn etchings” is a fruitful academic enterprise, and I am sure that their contribution will be enthusiastically accepted, particularly when this kind of academic ambrosia is also the colour of the paint on that mythic bandwagon called trophy hunting. It is a rather sad reality that researchers need to attract necessary funds to survive, ipso facto only research proposals containing the popular words “extinction”, “climate”, “global warming” or “trophy hunting” get to feed from the funding’s life-giving trough these days.

Like tenure, funding doesn’t grow on trees.