.@PaulaYScanlan: They told us we needed to be reeducated for not accepting the lie that a man can become a woman. Gender ideology is training girls to reject their protective instincts and telling girls they are the problem for objecting to sharing private spaces with men.@IWF pic.twitter.com/86BHsJnkCp
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) June 20, 2024
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Israel And Space
I need to write an essay on the topic by Monday. Comments are open for ideas for me to steal.
“Young Democrats Like Me”
Why Biden is losing them.
Well, he’s a terrible human being, and a terrible president, but other than that, I can’t imagine why.
Mike Rowe
…gives us something to stand for.
We’ll probably go.
We’re All Soviets Now
A disturbing and dismaying perspective from Niall Ferguson.
Another parallel is the modern version of Lysenkoism with nutrition, climate, and covid.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Niall Ferguson is right.
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J. D. Vance
An interesting interview by Ross Douthat. I do think it provides useful insight into Trump.
[Update Monday afternoon]
Here is the Brit Hum post where I found the link, that allowed me to read the interview:
This is long but very much worth reading. It may be the best defense of Trump (and Vance) I have read. https://t.co/FgidWMTRJG
— Brit Hume (@brithume) June 16, 2024
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Congratulations To All The Dads
…who are better fathers than Joe and Hunter Biden.
That’s most of them, probably.
[Father’s Day morning update]
Hunter Biden is his father’s son.
The Death Of Star Wars
I might care about this more if I’d ever thought Star Wars was that great to begin with. My problem with Star Wars is that I’ve always been a fan of science fiction.
Mars Is Earth’s Destiny
World’s Fairs
Reflections from Lileks.
We went to New York in 1965 and Montreal in 1967. I remember on the way back from the latter we had to pull over and duck in a ditch for a tornado between Port Huron and Flint. New York had some things that later went to Disneyland, including the wretched “It’s A Small World.
I also went to Vancouver in the 80s, but don’t recall the year. I was particularly amused by the Romanian Pavilion (this was before the fall of the communists) that claimed they’d invented the airplane in 1906.