No, America did not invent it.
Such is the state of our educational system.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Brexit And Trump
How I learned to stop worrying about the first, and love the other.
The left seems determined to push us into Trump’s and BoJo’s arms.
“Born That Way”
This study does not prove that people aren’t born that way. Of course there is no “gay gene.” That would make no evolutionary sense. It has to be a complex of them that, combined, cause it. Plus this seems to ignore pre-natal environment. There’s some evidence that this is a cause as well.
[Friday-morning update]
And then there’s this: “Genetics may explain up to 25% of same-sex behavior.”
Jessi Combs
This is sad, but she died doing what she loved.
[Update in the afternoon]
Here’s another story, but it says she was 39, not 36. Not that it matters.
Climate Hysteria
How the media enables and feeds it.
The New York Times
…should stop whining.
From A Physician At A Government Health Center
“Why I no longer believe that government healthcare can work.”
After many decades, we need to reintroduce markets to the healthcare industry.
Joe Biden
…is not going nuts. According to Joe Biden.
Because who is a better judge of whether or not someone is crazy than the crazy person?
I wish he wasn’t collapsing so fast. I wanted him to hang on at least through the convention.
Hong Kong Update
How the protests remaining leaderless has put the Chicoms in a box. They also have to continue to be non violent.
[Update Friday afternoon]
Is the thirty-year engagement with China coming to an end? This is a separate national-security issue from Trump’s more general trade wars (which are good, and easy to win, so he says).
[Saturday-morning update]
How to defend Hong Kong? Start by defending Taiwan.
[Bumped]
[Monday noon update]
Beijing is manufacturing circumstances to justify a crack down.
[Bumped]
The History Of Slavery
Yes, the Founders are being unjustly vilified here, and as Glenn notes, “Most of the people loudly criticizing western civilization over race today would happily have been slaveowners themselves.”
The desire to be part of the ruling class of a socialist society is essentially the yearning to be a slavemaster.