Open thread 6/4/21
Ozzy Man again. Warning for language again:
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Rand Paul gets to say…
…a very satisfying I told you so. I wonder how much this Wuhan lab coverup story will filter down to the rank and file Democrat voter, and whether it will matter. If past experience is any guide, it won’t make … Continue reading →
The great Wuhan lab leak story coverup
I really don’t know what’s most astounding about this story. Is it the fact that it appeared in Vanity Fair, of all places? Is it the fact that it appeared at all? Or is it the fact that the secret … Continue reading →
Google comes up with a tepid halfway solution for Kamau Bobb
Yesterday I wrote a post about some of the opinions expressed by Google’s “diversity head” Kamau Bobb a few years ago in a blog post of his. One of the many things he’d written was, “If I were a Jew … Continue reading →
Open thread 6/3/21
RIP B. J. Thomas:
Continue reading →Notes from Google’s “diversity head”
An old blog post written by Google’s head of diversity, Kamau Bobb, has been spotlighted. It was written by Bobb when he was a research associate in technology at Georgia Tech, and appeared on his blog as part of a … Continue reading →
COVID and the lab leak theory: the correction of the correction of the correction of the…
This is the way the WaPo rolls (by Treacher): But now, with Trump out of office and the pandemic winding down, more and more people are asking the same question. Suddenly, it’s acceptable to ask what the hell is going … Continue reading →
“She was the ‘wrong’ kind of victim, and therefore didn’t exist”
[Hat tip: commenter “AesopFan”] Harry V. Jaffa, a professor of political philosophy at Claremont College, gave a farewell address to the school in 1989 that appears here in its entirety. The speech has some commonalities with the work of Allan … Continue reading →
Open thread 6/2/21
Plisetskaya the great, in the late 1950s:
Continue reading →The decline of the classics departments
Howard University is instituting a new policy described in this WaPo op-ed by Cornel West and Jeremy Tate: Upon learning to read while enslaved, Frederick Douglass began his great journey of emancipation, as such journeys always begin, in the mind. … Continue reading →
China continues to try to centrally control its birthrate
In 1979, China instituted its one-child policy for population control, and enforced it with draconian measures. It’s an example of the impulse to centralized control by leftist states, and also the cruelty, unforeseen consequences, and ultimate failure of such control. … Continue reading →
The intelligence trap
From commenter “Barry Meislin”: One might wish to believe otherwise, but intelligence is no guarantee against believing—and holding fast to—the most absurd and pathetic falsehoods. In fact, it seems as though the opposite is the case; i.e., the more intelligent … Continue reading →