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Category Archives: Social Commentary
The Revolution
“The Board also voted to change the name of Roosevelt Middle School, even though no one was sure whether it was named after Theodore Roosevelt or Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Better safe than sorry. By the way, the Board does not have new names chosen for the schools. It just wants to get rid of the old ones.”
Just number them. That’s what the Soviets did, after all.
Biden’s Culture-War Blitzkrieg
Thoughts from Rod Dreher, but mostly quotes from Andrew Sullivan.
[Update Sunday morning]
Sorry, link fixed now, but the original one is pretty good, too.
Pioneers And The Future
Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman on our societal risk aversion, and an announcement.
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.