Very cool. (Well, unless one’s a Braves’ fan…)
Thanks, Kate!!
(BTW, is it my imagination…or are there a whole lot more crazy errors happening in the big leagues? Hmm, symptomatic? Symbolic? Solidarity?)
A recent Newsweek poll claims that 44% of younger Millenials (defined as aged 25-34) believe that misgendering should be a crime, but only 33% of older, voting age Gen Zers (defined as aged 18-24) think that misgendering should be a crime. The poll says that across all age groups only 19% think misgendering should be criminal.
It’s a Newsweek poll, so it’s obviously pretty far from trustworthy. But I think it’s interesting that there could be this weird 25-34 age cohort that has evidently been more thoroughly brainwashed by wokism than a younger cohort as well as all the older cohorts. If true, it’d be interesting to speculate about why that may be.
Kate: Thanks for that. As more and more professionals get nearer and nearer to perfection, the games are getting boring. Errors make them interesting.
I wrote up this profile on GA State Rep Mesha Mainor, who switched parties. The racist attacks against her were incredibly vile and shocking. But, her story is very compelling. Hard Knocks, Great mentors, true crime, corruption, and standing against the machine to put kids first.
A recent Newsweek poll claims that 44% of younger Millenials (defined as aged 25-34) believe that misgendering should be a crime, but only 33% of older, voting age Gen Zers (defined as aged 18-24) think that misgendering should be a crime. The poll says that across all age groups only 19% think misgendering should be criminal.
==
It’s almost certainly a massaged convenience sample.
Nonapod, I’m wondering what the punishment will be when I call my dog by my kid’s name by mistake? And what about when people call their kids by their siblings’ names? We keep thinking it can’t get any more absurd, only for the universe to kick it up another notch. As paranoid as it sounds, at the rate we’re going, I can see children suing their parents for everything for the emotional trauma of having been called by their aunt’s or uncle’s name, or perhaps by an older sibling’s name.
One step forward?
The Louisiana legislature voted in favor of overriding Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of a law that would ban medically transitioning minors.
Sponsored by Republican State Rep. Gabe Firment, the law would ban doctors from “prescribing hormone therapy and puberty blockers to minors, and from administering gender-transition surgical procedures,” according to NOLA. The state legislature passed the bill in June, only to be vetoed by Gov. John Bel Edwards.
On Tuesday, the override of the governor’s veto passed 75-23 before it was approved by the State Senate.
This was interesting. I’ve had this thought for a while. What if accepting reality involves admitting that you have been complicit in horrific atrocities victimizing children, perhaps even your own children?
This woman is correct. There are some who will never be able to let go. I fear that the end of the trans fad, when it inevitably comes, will be much uglier and more destructive than many imagine.
Elections in Spain.
The Conservatives, leading significantly in the polls, are warning that the current Socialist government will pull a “Biden”.
The current Socialist government responds by accusing the Conservatives of acting like Trumpists.
Lots of mail-in ballots, apparently, the ultimate question being who will do the counting.
(Now why would Leftists want to steal an election…?)
Thanks Mark.
Great article.
Should be noted that almost across the board, Democratic politicians—in thrall to (or should that be, “in league with”?) the teachers’ unions—are either dismissing or rejecting the option of Charter schools or limiting their availability, in spite of the proven, if relative, success of Charter schools and the fact that parents want them for the sake of their children’s education.
Randi Weingarten, take a bow.
To be “fair” to the teachers’ unions on the other hand, it is not just that they don’t want those children to get an education: they want to be able to indoctrinate those children with CRT—that America is racist, that whites are racist—and also with Trans ideology…and how can they possibly do that if the parents of those kids send them to the WRONG schools??
Just another issue of Democratic Party control over the state and its citizens—especially its children.
Might one wonder if this is the same reason why the Democratic Party is encouraging Black crime, especially but not only Black-on-Black crime?
File under: Gosh, that sounds like just another CONSPIRACY theory…
…though to be fair to the Democrats (once again! Gotta be FAIR), they’re encouraging ALL kinds of crime by ALL kinds of people.
Equal opportunity crime, and equal opportunity corruption!
Crime—and poverty, and fear, and loathing—FOR ALL! (Maybe THAT’s what they mean by EQUITY…)
Starting at the very top of the pyramid.
Related:
“Bloody 12-hour stretch of NYC youth-on-youth gun violence kills 15-year-old aspiring MMA fighter”— https://nypost.com/2023/07/18/explosion-of-nyc-youth-gun-violence-leaves-four-wounded-one-dead/
Quote, 7/19/23:
First, it was “What is a woman?”.
Now it is “What is an army?”
(On a scale of 1 to 10, just how safe are you feeling these days?)
Re: Disney remake: “Snow White and the Seven Magical Creatures”
Also not the Babylon Bee.
Snow White is a dusky Latina, no doubt wise as well, plus she can kick a**!
The dwarves are replaced by “magical creatures” in the usual rainbow of races and genders, with only one dwarf. They look like a failed psychedelic rock group from 1967.
Prince Charming is gone. Snow don’t need no white male savior, especially not one who will kiss her nonconsensually. (#MeToo to the rescue.)
There is Jonathan, a bland, nonthreatening male, following Snow’s girl-boss lead. Disney has shot a number of endings. In one Snow is confronting the Evil Queen. Jonathan rises to the occasion, but she pushes him down into the mud, then Brings It to the Evil Queen.
Yep. That’s what I call family entertainment. Parents and kids will be lining up around the blocks for this one.
@Barry Meislin:the teachers’ unions—are either dismissing or rejecting the option of Charter schools or limiting their availability, in spite of the proven, if relative, success of Charter schools and the fact that parents want them for the sake of their children’s education.
Randi Weingarten, take a bow.
To be “fair” to the teachers’ unions on the other hand, it is not just that they don’t want those children to get an education: they want to be able to indoctrinate those children with CRT—that America is racist, that whites are racist—and also with Trans ideology…and how can they possibly do that if the parents of those kids send them to the WRONG schools??
This is not really the major issue behind opposition to any alternative to public school. It’s because public school, a long time ago, stopped being about education and became a jobs program.
Every few months my own school district puts out a glossy magazine about how awesome it is, and I can easily see what percentage of the people working there actually teach.
File under: The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg (The Sequel)…wherein a gander identifying as a goose banishes said goose who refuses to accept this outrageous perversion of reality….
‘Country Music Television’ says ‘Hold my Bud Lite’ ~ Takes Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That In a Small Town’ Video Off Air
I’ve got a bit of cultural whiplash discovering that Tracy Chapman’s 80s hit, “Fast Car” (1988) is now in the Country charts covered by Luke Combs. With total respect I must add.
Chapman is a black leftist social activist. Her other 80s hit was the leftist anthem, “Talkin’ About a Revolution.”
However, I stand with Luke Combs that “Fast Car” is a heartbreaking masterpiece about trying to find one’s way up from the bottom, which transcends right and left. It reads just fine as a current country song.
______________________________
You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Any place is better
Starting from zero, got nothing to lose
Maybe we’ll make something
Me, myself, I got nothing to prove
The left is losing it that a country guy would cover “Fast Car” and country fans would swoon. I’m pleased to say that Tracy Chapman welcomes Combs cover.
______________________________
I never expected to find myself on the country charts, but I’m honored to be there.
Anyone who thinks the so-called hard sciences are less corrupt than the humanities, think again: the president of Stanford, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, just resigned, effective August 31. He’s a neuroscientist, born in Canada, educated in the UK, and was previously president of Rockefeller University. He was also formerly executive vice president for research and chief scientific officer at Genentech.
In 2022, Stanford University opened an investigation into allegations of Tessier-Lavigne’s involvement in fabricating results in articles published between 2001 and 2008. The report was released yesterday. Details at the link below. Predictably, Tessier-Lavigne claims he was too trusting of his students and postdocs: “In his open letter to the Stanford community, Tessier-Lavigne suggested he was the victim of having shown too much ‘trust’ in the work of students and postdoctoral researchers.”
Seems Chapman was no oppressed artist because she was black — she was a major, major singer whose work is so contagious it not only gave the country charts their number one hit today, it gave her own musical categories number one hits, too.
That’s not someone repressed, as the Post claims, that is a rare and spectacular talent recognized by fans across the board, not just in the 1980s but now, too. To claim that country music represses black singers unless they have a white “middleman” is ridiculous, give what Chapman’s songs are doing on the charts — they succeed wherever they go. This is testimony to the power and talent of Chapman’s work that it can span decades and still hit number one on a re-release, and that it can do that in more than one musical genre.
No wonder Chapman had no time for the Post’s whining — they seemed to consider her a minor talent or something.
With numbers like these, she just made their claims look stupid.
She must be marveling at how little they knew about who she was and how irrelevant their claims of racial grievances were. How can she not be having the last laugh?
Does anyone on the Left even consider doing basic research anymore (if they ever did)?
Seems like there is a story every day that contains, in addition to the bias, laughable ignorance.
Now before you go worrying your pretty little head about spotted owls and the barred owls that eat them or whatever creature you fancy, this forest-sized mass of trees has been systematically chopped down for years. Indeed, they’ve been cutting down these trees at a rate of 1,700 per day for the past 23 years. This is into the billions of board feet of timber brought down and used hopefully to good purposes, but it’s the Scottish government so who knows.
…
So let’s do the back-of-the-envelope math here. They’re chopping down trees, reducing the O2 output of that region, because, unless they’ve replaced the study of photosynthesis with another new sex toy exhibit, most school kids remember that trees and green plants produce oxygen. At the same time, the tree chopping also increases the CO2 output. Trees are CO2 sinks. When the trees are processed or burned in a wildfire, they release the CO2.
…
Not only do windmills not produce energy when the winds don’t blow, but they also don’t work when they’re cold.
Scotland understands this issue, and it brings us to our next environy with their windmills. When it gets cold Scotland has equipped all the windmills with diesel engines to make them chop, chop, chop, and kill the birds.
In regards to Tracy Chapman, the people in the media and culture politics don’t realize that there was life before 1995. When this kerfluffel started I wonder how many were startled to find out she was still alive.
Re: scientists falsifying data and results. Science is really a hot mess these days. You do research, construct experiments to prove your theories. It works, yea! You haven’t wasted the money you were given! You get more money! The experiment didn’t work. Oh no! No one will ever give you money again! Maybe you fudge some data, so you can get more money, and send your work out for peer review. Your peers don’t have the time or money to replicate your work, so they look at your work and say it looks good to me. And around it goes. Everyone expects the government to fund science. Why aren’t those colleges with endowments in the billions fund all the research that happens on their campuses.
Neo, I love this blog! I get to fantasize about a better world.
JFM mentions: “Why aren’t those colleges with endowments in the billions funding all the research that happens on their campuses.” Indeed, and why don’t they fund, at least partially, student loan forgiveness.
as gutfeld points out, the song was an earwig, not as bad as abba’s dancing queen but close,
For baseball fans, Arizona rookie reaches third base after striking out:
https://twitter.com/Dbacks/status/1681453702513672192
Very cool. (Well, unless one’s a Braves’ fan…)
Thanks, Kate!!
(BTW, is it my imagination…or are there a whole lot more crazy errors happening in the big leagues? Hmm, symptomatic? Symbolic? Solidarity?)
A recent Newsweek poll claims that 44% of younger Millenials (defined as aged 25-34) believe that misgendering should be a crime, but only 33% of older, voting age Gen Zers (defined as aged 18-24) think that misgendering should be a crime. The poll says that across all age groups only 19% think misgendering should be criminal.
It’s a Newsweek poll, so it’s obviously pretty far from trustworthy. But I think it’s interesting that there could be this weird 25-34 age cohort that has evidently been more thoroughly brainwashed by wokism than a younger cohort as well as all the older cohorts. If true, it’d be interesting to speculate about why that may be.
Kate: Thanks for that. As more and more professionals get nearer and nearer to perfection, the games are getting boring. Errors make them interesting.
I wrote up this profile on GA State Rep Mesha Mainor, who switched parties. The racist attacks against her were incredibly vile and shocking. But, her story is very compelling. Hard Knocks, Great mentors, true crime, corruption, and standing against the machine to put kids first.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/georgias_newest_republican_is_a_true_social_justice_warrior.html
A recent Newsweek poll claims that 44% of younger Millenials (defined as aged 25-34) believe that misgendering should be a crime, but only 33% of older, voting age Gen Zers (defined as aged 18-24) think that misgendering should be a crime. The poll says that across all age groups only 19% think misgendering should be criminal.
==
It’s almost certainly a massaged convenience sample.
Nonapod, I’m wondering what the punishment will be when I call my dog by my kid’s name by mistake? And what about when people call their kids by their siblings’ names? We keep thinking it can’t get any more absurd, only for the universe to kick it up another notch. As paranoid as it sounds, at the rate we’re going, I can see children suing their parents for everything for the emotional trauma of having been called by their aunt’s or uncle’s name, or perhaps by an older sibling’s name.
One step forward?
The Louisiana legislature voted in favor of overriding Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of a law that would ban medically transitioning minors.
Sponsored by Republican State Rep. Gabe Firment, the law would ban doctors from “prescribing hormone therapy and puberty blockers to minors, and from administering gender-transition surgical procedures,” according to NOLA. The state legislature passed the bill in June, only to be vetoed by Gov. John Bel Edwards.
On Tuesday, the override of the governor’s veto passed 75-23 before it was approved by the State Senate.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/louisiana_legisalture_overrides_woke_governos_veto_of_their_veto_on_kiddie_gender_transitions.html
This was interesting. I’ve had this thought for a while. What if accepting reality involves admitting that you have been complicit in horrific atrocities victimizing children, perhaps even your own children?
This woman is correct. There are some who will never be able to let go. I fear that the end of the trans fad, when it inevitably comes, will be much uglier and more destructive than many imagine.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/07/19/helen_joyce_the_parents_of_trans_children_will_not_be_able_to_move_on.html
Litli-Hrutur conewall collapsed last night. Spectacular lava outflow ensues: https://youtu.be/Me39ZMFfG28
Elections in Spain.
The Conservatives, leading significantly in the polls, are warning that the current Socialist government will pull a “Biden”.
The current Socialist government responds by accusing the Conservatives of acting like Trumpists.
Lots of mail-in ballots, apparently, the ultimate question being who will do the counting.
(Now why would Leftists want to steal an election…?)
“Spanish Conservatives Sound Alarm After Irregular Postal Voting Patterns;
“Pegasus, Catalonia, and recent vote rigging scandals have fueled an atmosphere of distrust in the electoral process. Most polls predict a comfortable victory for the Right in this week’s Spanish parliamentary elections.”—
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/spanish-conservatives-sound-alarm-after-irregular-postal-voting-patterns/
And so…here we go…(again?)
File under: What hath “Biden” wrought…
Thanks Mark.
Great article.
Should be noted that almost across the board, Democratic politicians—in thrall to (or should that be, “in league with”?) the teachers’ unions—are either dismissing or rejecting the option of Charter schools or limiting their availability, in spite of the proven, if relative, success of Charter schools and the fact that parents want them for the sake of their children’s education.
Randi Weingarten, take a bow.
To be “fair” to the teachers’ unions on the other hand, it is not just that they don’t want those children to get an education: they want to be able to indoctrinate those children with CRT—that America is racist, that whites are racist—and also with Trans ideology…and how can they possibly do that if the parents of those kids send them to the WRONG schools??
Just another issue of Democratic Party control over the state and its citizens—especially its children.
Might one wonder if this is the same reason why the Democratic Party is encouraging Black crime, especially but not only Black-on-Black crime?
File under: Gosh, that sounds like just another CONSPIRACY theory…
…though to be fair to the Democrats (once again! Gotta be FAIR), they’re encouraging ALL kinds of crime by ALL kinds of people.
Equal opportunity crime, and equal opportunity corruption!
Crime—and poverty, and fear, and loathing—FOR ALL! (Maybe THAT’s what they mean by EQUITY…)
Starting at the very top of the pyramid.
Related:
“Bloody 12-hour stretch of NYC youth-on-youth gun violence kills 15-year-old aspiring MMA fighter”—
https://nypost.com/2023/07/18/explosion-of-nyc-youth-gun-violence-leaves-four-wounded-one-dead/
Quote, 7/19/23:
First, it was “What is a woman?”.
Now it is “What is an army?”
(On a scale of 1 to 10, just how safe are you feeling these days?)
DOD Memo Says Transgender Soldiers on Hormone Therapy Can Skip Deployments
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/19/dod-memo-says-transgender-soldiers-on-hormone-therapy-can-skip-deployments/
Re: Disney remake: “Snow White and the Seven Magical Creatures”
Also not the Babylon Bee.
Snow White is a dusky Latina, no doubt wise as well, plus she can kick a**!
The dwarves are replaced by “magical creatures” in the usual rainbow of races and genders, with only one dwarf. They look like a failed psychedelic rock group from 1967.
Prince Charming is gone. Snow don’t need no white male savior, especially not one who will kiss her nonconsensually. (#MeToo to the rescue.)
There is Jonathan, a bland, nonthreatening male, following Snow’s girl-boss lead. Disney has shot a number of endings. In one Snow is confronting the Evil Queen. Jonathan rises to the occasion, but she pushes him down into the mud, then Brings It to the Evil Queen.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/disneys-live-action-snow-white-under-fire-for-replacing-seven-dwarfs/
Yep. That’s what I call family entertainment. Parents and kids will be lining up around the blocks for this one.
@Barry Meislin:the teachers’ unions—are either dismissing or rejecting the option of Charter schools or limiting their availability, in spite of the proven, if relative, success of Charter schools and the fact that parents want them for the sake of their children’s education.
Randi Weingarten, take a bow.
To be “fair” to the teachers’ unions on the other hand, it is not just that they don’t want those children to get an education: they want to be able to indoctrinate those children with CRT—that America is racist, that whites are racist—and also with Trans ideology…and how can they possibly do that if the parents of those kids send them to the WRONG schools??
This is not really the major issue behind opposition to any alternative to public school. It’s because public school, a long time ago, stopped being about education and became a jobs program.
While teacher pay has stagnated over the past two decades, the percentage of school budgets going to administrators has skyrocketed. Half the states now have more noninstructional personnel than teachers.
Every few months my own school district puts out a glossy magazine about how awesome it is, and I can easily see what percentage of the people working there actually teach.
“…lining up around the block…”
Related:
Dizzy denizens of disastrous diversity….
“…Desperate Disney Prepares To Sell Off Third Of Company”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2023/07/19/nolte-desperate-disney-prepares-to-sell-off-third-of-company/
File under: The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg (The Sequel)…wherein a gander identifying as a goose banishes said goose who refuses to accept this outrageous perversion of reality….
‘Country Music Television’ says ‘Hold my Bud Lite’ ~ Takes Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That In a Small Town’ Video Off Air
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4169024/posts
YouTube … doing what YouTube does:
https://summit.news/2023/07/19/youtube-is-pulling-sound-of-freedom-interviews-reviews/
Speaking of country music…
I’ve got a bit of cultural whiplash discovering that Tracy Chapman’s 80s hit, “Fast Car” (1988) is now in the Country charts covered by Luke Combs. With total respect I must add.
Chapman is a black leftist social activist. Her other 80s hit was the leftist anthem, “Talkin’ About a Revolution.”
However, I stand with Luke Combs that “Fast Car” is a heartbreaking masterpiece about trying to find one’s way up from the bottom, which transcends right and left. It reads just fine as a current country song.
______________________________
You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Any place is better
Starting from zero, got nothing to lose
Maybe we’ll make something
Me, myself, I got nothing to prove
–Luke Combs, “Fast Car (Official Live Video)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr7oYjnt3bM
______________________________
The left is losing it that a country guy would cover “Fast Car” and country fans would swoon. I’m pleased to say that Tracy Chapman welcomes Combs cover.
______________________________
I never expected to find myself on the country charts, but I’m honored to be there.
–Tracy Chapman,
https://people.com/tracy-chapman-reveals-thoughts-luke-combs-fast-car-cover-7557516
sdferr @12:22pm,
Wow! That’s amazing!
Anyone who thinks the so-called hard sciences are less corrupt than the humanities, think again: the president of Stanford, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, just resigned, effective August 31. He’s a neuroscientist, born in Canada, educated in the UK, and was previously president of Rockefeller University. He was also formerly executive vice president for research and chief scientific officer at Genentech.
In 2022, Stanford University opened an investigation into allegations of Tessier-Lavigne’s involvement in fabricating results in articles published between 2001 and 2008. The report was released yesterday. Details at the link below. Predictably, Tessier-Lavigne claims he was too trusting of his students and postdocs: “In his open letter to the Stanford community, Tessier-Lavigne suggested he was the victim of having shown too much ‘trust’ in the work of students and postdoctoral researchers.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/stanford-university-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-announces-resignati-rcna95141
@ huxley – some interesting stats on Chapman
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/tracy_chapman_has_the_last_laugh.html
Does anyone on the Left even consider doing basic research anymore (if they ever did)?
Seems like there is a story every day that contains, in addition to the bias, laughable ignorance.
I can’t even.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/07/20/holy-environy-scotland-cuts-down-forest-to-make-room-for-windmills-n1712075
In regards to Tracy Chapman, the people in the media and culture politics don’t realize that there was life before 1995. When this kerfluffel started I wonder how many were startled to find out she was still alive.
Re: scientists falsifying data and results. Science is really a hot mess these days. You do research, construct experiments to prove your theories. It works, yea! You haven’t wasted the money you were given! You get more money! The experiment didn’t work. Oh no! No one will ever give you money again! Maybe you fudge some data, so you can get more money, and send your work out for peer review. Your peers don’t have the time or money to replicate your work, so they look at your work and say it looks good to me. And around it goes. Everyone expects the government to fund science. Why aren’t those colleges with endowments in the billions fund all the research that happens on their campuses.
Neo, I love this blog! I get to fantasize about a better world.
JFM mentions: “Why aren’t those colleges with endowments in the billions funding all the research that happens on their campuses.” Indeed, and why don’t they fund, at least partially, student loan forgiveness.
as gutfeld points out, the song was an earwig, not as bad as abba’s dancing queen but close,
https://twitter.com/nothin_was_left/status/1681908655455600642