…are not going away.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
An Experimental Anti-Viral
…is effective at treating Covid.
Between this kind of thing and the vaccines, I think this is all over but the shouting. I am definitely done with wearing a mask outside, especially in sunlight. Masks outside never made any scientific sense.
[Update a few minutes later]
Popular new mask says “I’m not a Democrat; I just forgot to take off my mask when I left the store.”
Honoring The Consonant
An interesting essay on a subject to which I had previously given little thought.
Public Education
The pandemic revealed how broken it is.
All these leftist institutions–government schools, academia, Hollywood, the media, the Democrat-run cities–should be thoroughly kicked while they’re down, and keep them down.
Big Business
Why it loves Black Lives Matter, and woke politics in general:
Woke politics has also been useful for firms hiding all kinds of unsavoury practices. Many firms will proclaim allegiance to BLM one day, while lobbying against curbs on forced labour the next, for instance. Indeed, whether you take the Marxist view, that all firms in a capitalist system exploit labour anyway, or the Adam Smith view, that sellers in a marketplace act out of self-interest rather than kindness, it is surely hard to take any company’s proclamations of righteousness too seriously.
This reminds me of how “feminist” men use their wokeism to attempt to insulate themselves from their abuse of women, like when Harvey Weinstein went to war with the NRA to deflect from his predatory behavior toward starlets.
[Update a while later]
Big Tech, Big Law, And Big Woke are banding together for a political realignment.
The Space Settlement Act
A call for Bill Nelson to dust it off.
Space settlement was an implicit goal of the Trump space agenda. We’ll see if Biden continues that.
Diversity Training
How it widens the gulf between the races.
I’m borrowing Sarah Hoyt’s shocked face, even though I know it’s been getting quite a workout.
The Social Justice Mob
“When it came for me, Vanderbilt did nothing.”
The Bias Of Normalcy
…can kill you. Don’t think it can’t happen here.
[Via Sarah Hoyt]
Kong Versus Godzilla
If you like watching a big ape (not “monkey”) punching a big lizard (and vice versa), does Sonny Bunch have a movie for you.
But notwithstanding the quality of the flick itself, I have to dispute his characterization of his home theater as “decent enough.” A soundbar is easy, but it’s not home theater. I’ve put in 5.1 surround sound, with a Polkaudio subwoofer, and that is close enough to theater quality for me to watch at home. To me the big difference between home and theater is screen size, even with our own 65″. It’s much more immersive when you can’t see much of anything except screen.