“Does your website have a goal?”
The above question was in an email I received yesterday. I first read it as “Does your website have a goat?,” which seemed to me a much more interesting question.
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Coleman Hughes on Black Lives Matter – and the election
The following is a great video – until the end, when he says he plans to vote for Biden (34:35): How can Hughes say he will vote for Biden after spending about a half hour arguing against the premises of … Continue reading →
Demoralized and abandoned
NYC cops are filing for retirement in droves. Logical consequences. Let’s see NY replace them with social workers – right, that’ll work. And if New Yorkers liked the bad old pre-Giuliani era, then they’ll love the roaring 2020s. I wonder … Continue reading →
SCOTUS rules in favor of Little Sisters of the Poor
Today there is good news in a situation that’s been going on for quite some time: The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration acted within its authority when it expanded exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) requirement … Continue reading →
Dealing with the NYC public school system: “white adjacent”
One of the benefits of YouTube is that it enables us to hear reasonable people talking reasonably about a host of topics that are usually discussed in a manner so unreasonable as to conjure up associations with the world in … Continue reading →
Not theOnion and not the Babylon Bee: 2 + 2 = 4 is just “cultural”
Don’t ask Brittany “O’Brien” Marshall to design a bridge for you: “Nope the idea of 2+2 equaling 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing,” wrote Marshall… Marshall goes by … Continue reading →
More on the time frame for Judge Sullivan’s response
An update: …[B]ased on the decision of the DC Court of Appeals, and the 21 day period under the Rules of Appellate Procedure before a “Mandate” issues from the Appeals Court to the District Court, Judge Sullivan has until July … Continue reading →
“Kafkatrap” is the new name for ye olde double bind
A double bind is a social science term for “heads I win, tails you lose.” It goes like this: A double bind is a dilemma in communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more conflicting messages, with … Continue reading →
The left in the US has long been protected…
…by the values of the right. The rule of law, free speech (which the left also championed when they were a relatively small minority), polite discourse in the public arena, respect for private property. But all that time, the left … Continue reading →
Good critique of the anti-racism (White Fragility and others) cult
If someone in your life is pressuring you to be schooled in the white privilege anti-racism (“it’s not enough to not be racist, you must be anti-racist”) cult, you might want to take a look at these. Short and to … Continue reading →
Paging Judge Sullivan
Have you noticed that Judge Sullivan has neither acted nor spoken on the Flynn case since he was ordered to dismiss it? I don’t think the court gave him an explicit time limit for the dismissal, and it’s been nearly … Continue reading →
It’s time to talk not just about Biden the man, but about his platform
Now, you might say that Biden the man is the issue, and that’s true. Corrupt, unintelligent and quirky even when he was at his best, and now most definitely not at his best, he would most likely be a mere … Continue reading →