Category Archives: Social Commentary

The B-Team

More like the C-Team, actually. What happens when mediocrities are promoted.

[Update a few minutes later]

Related: Academics thrill to rape and murder.

[Update a while later]

Is Gen Z turning against Western civilization? And thoughts on Weimar America:

…the overwhelmingly minority students (whose school is ranked academically near the bottom among New York City schools) were acculturated to the racist reality that as the “oppressed” they were exempt from any punishment for hunting down their own teacher. As a Jewish (and thus white) “oppressive” supporter of Israel, she was reduced to, in the words an enthusiastic commenter on a Tik Tok video of the riot, a “cracker ass bitch.” And so the student pack tracked her down as if they were hunting an animal. The old Nazi youth gangs tried to kill Jews because they were not considered “white;” our new Nazis hunt them down because they allege that they are. The common denominator between the 1930s and 2023 is an unhinged hatred of Jews.

Yes.

[Afternoon update]

The people who mobbed the Jewish restaurant in Philly are total psychopaths.

[Wednesday-morning update]

Addressing the rot in the universities.

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[Friday-morning update]

Genocide and Jews at Harvard.

And are Americans finally starting to see the depravity of academia?

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[Update a few minutes later]

Reverse speech codes aren’t the answer.

Living And Dying In 3/4 Time

Thoughts on aging, from Glenn Reynolds.

I’m a few years older, but I view things similarly. I, too, have noticed more of my cohorts shuffling off this mortal coil (e.g., Chuck Lauer two or three years ago, and Mark Hopkins a year or so ago, though he had clearly been in poor health for a while).

I hope I have more than another twenty healthy years, but I obviously can’t count on it. And I don’t really know what “retirement” means, other than being able to do what I want to do, as opposed to what I wouldn’t voluntarily do if someone else wasn’t paying me to do it. I don’t golf, or have any hobbies, really, and I want to stay involved in space in what (despite my having lived through Apollo) is rapidly becoming the most exciting period of my life for that industry. I am still trying to make interesting things happen, and generate enough income from it for us to travel and enjoy life more while we have our health.

“The Game”

It was a great way to end an era. There will likely never again be a Michigan-Ohio State game with as much on the line as this one, and it may be that it will no longer be the last game in the regular season, with the new additions to the conference. It looks like this could be a legendary year for the Wolverines. But they have to beat Iowa next week, and then see how the seeds turn out for the playoffs.