Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman on our societal risk aversion, and an announcement.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Refuse To Be Silenced
As Glenn Reynolds often notes, it was a mistake for the blogosphere to move into the walled gardens of social media. Kurt Schlichter writes that it’s time to take back our own communications.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Left wants to silence conservatives, all of them.
It’s because their terrible ideas don’t stand up to scrutiny, or debate.
Joseph Epstein
Read the whole thing; it’s worth giving them your first name and an email address, if you’re not a subcriber.
Kathy Sheidle
RIP.
This is sad. But her obituary is entirely in character.
[Sunday-morning update]
Mark Steyn remembers her.
[January 17th update]
Sheidle among the stars.
[Bumped]
[Afternoon update]
Link is fixed, sorry.
1984
Someone made a trailer of a muppet version, and it does seem watchable.
Wokeness As Secular Puritanism
Thoughts on the American religion.
Teachers’ Unions
They should be abolished, but fat chance of that in this administration.
Don’t Be Shiftless
A list of new cars that you can still buy with a stick shift. I don’t know how much longer they’ll survive, but it will be an end of an era.
[Via Glenn, who points out that they make excellent anti-theft insurance, since most young people don’t know how to drive them]
An Ascendant Left
…silences and excludes its political enemies.
An Abusive Relationship
Fifteen ways to know you’re in one.
Just wow.