https://instapundit.substack.com/p/jd-vance-the-new-york-times-and-decency?utm_campaign=reaction&utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack&utm_content=post

But, when did THIS become an Olympic sport??

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/28/sport/rayssa-leal-street-skateboarding-olympics-spt-intl/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

And get off my lawn!

Gabriel Medina deserved a 10 just for the end of that ride…

A Dutch volleyball player and convicted child rapist is in the Olympics:
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In 2014, van de Velde, aged 19 at the time, corresponded with a 12-year-old girl who sent him a friend request on Facebook…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_van_de_Velde
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He served 13 months of a four-year sentence. He is being protected by the Olympics from speaking to journalists.

On the trans front — brave XY boxers taking on XX women.
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The International ­Olympic Committee has confirmed that two boxers who were disqualified from the world champion­ships last year for failing gender eligibility tests will be allowed to fight in Paris.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/29/boxers-who-failed-gender-tests-at-world-championships-cleared-to-compete-at-olympics
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Oh, and now the Palestinians are predictably acting up.

–“Olympics: Arabs Do Nazi Salute as Israeli Anthem Plays”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/07/29/olympics-arabs-do-nazi-salute-as-israeli-anthem-plays-n4931173

It sure sounds like they are chanting Heil Hitler too.

T J:

Yes, I didn’t realize how bad it was either. The Last Supper in drag. And the non-apology apologies plus outright lies (it wasn’t The Last Supper).

According to a poll, 70-80% of Americans were offended. I hope Paris takes a serious hit on viewership.

I remember that Harpers was a very lively and unorthodox magazine in the Eighties. I didn’t know or didn’t remember that Michael Kinsley was editor for two years — forty years is a long time. I also remember that Harpers was lively and unorthodox in the Seventies. Those who find omissions “amusing” and obsessively collect them should note that you omitted to say that Lewis Lapham was managing editor of the magazine from 1971 to 1975 and editor from 1976 to 1981, as well as from 1983 to 2006. The spritely, iconoclastic spirit of the magazine owed at least as much to Lapham as to Kinsley.

Of course, Lapham grew old, got pompous and querulous, and stopped listening to people. I don’t like what he did with the magazine later, but selling out to the McArthur Foundation did help keep the magazine going and made it possible to avoid selling out to the kind of people who took over the Atlantic and the New Republic.

Nic Rowan’s contributions to the the American Conservative have been mostly light — on things like Pandas, Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit, subways, football, Calvin and Hobbes (the comic strip characters, not the theologian and philosopher). He did come down harder on Martin Peretz than on Lapham, but Lapham died and Peretz only wrote a book, and Rowan actually knew Lapham. I would guess that the magazine published Rowan’s article because they remembered that they had been on the same side as Lapham during the Bush wars.

S’truth.

He took a 95mph fastball in the first inning off his left cheek below his eye and flush into his nose (breaking it); he caught the whole 9 innings, went 1 for three, scored a run and with the hbp, drove in a run.

Legend.

https://x.com/Orioles/status/1818048763530826194?t=d1bnylg4QNkmb9P1KAudcg&s=19

Oh, and his wife and kids were there and witnessed the whole thing.