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“Which is it to-day?” I {Watson} asked,—“morphine or cocaine?”

He {Holmes} raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. “It is cocaine,” he said,—“a seven-per-cent. solution. Would you care to try it?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

#1.2 Zachriel on 2023-09-06 11:18 (Reply)

'Yabba dabba doo.' - Fred Flintstone. ' on your bike troll.

#1.2.1 Lord Heathen on 2023-09-06 11:23 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Sherlock Holmes and Watson are lesbians in this 'queer, feminist' adaptation of the classic play . . . Over the next academic year, the Department of Theatre and Drama within the School of Education will showcase four shows, including Orlando, in which the titular character “{travels} the world, through time, changing from man to woman.”

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Also, a play about a woman posing as a man, by a guy named Billy or Willy somethingorother.

#1.3 Zachriel on 2023-09-06 11:54 (Reply)

Celebrate even MORE depravity!!!

#1.3.1 eeyore on 2023-09-06 13:16 (Reply)

'The Misogyny Myth - Women aren’t discriminated against in twenty-first-century America—but men increasingly are.'

Western women, especially the White ones, are the most privileged women in the world, yet they bitch constantly.

#2 Maniac on 2023-09-06 09:50 (Reply)

QUOTE:

The Misogyny Myth - Women aren’t discriminated against in twenty-first-century America—but men increasingly are.

Yeah. When will men ever be given equal access to power?!

#2.1 Zachriel on 2023-09-06 10:46 (Reply)

Maybe that’s part of the problem: women (democrat women) want to be given access, instead of earning. Booo hoo Hillary. Have another bottle of wine.

#2.1.1 B. Hammer on 2023-09-06 11:22 (Reply)

B. Hammer: Maybe that’s part of the problem: women (democrat women) want to be given access, instead of earning.

Sure. That's the ticket.

#2.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-09-06 11:44 (Reply)

Yeah, that the ticket.

#2.1.2.1 Zachinoff on 2023-09-06 21:21 (Reply)

I really tried to read the New Yorker piece about the writers. I made it about halfway. I really don’t care about their money problems.

I thought maybe the first two links were compendium pieces. The writers are unhappy because they have to write about lesbian Sherlock Holmes. No, that is what they want to write about. Good luck with that.

#3 B. Hammer on 2023-09-06 10:25 (Reply)

A good example of how men in America are discriminated against it the child custody and child support debacle. A man literally cannot get custody of his children it is almost always given to the woman. A man always has to pay child support and a woman almost never has to. In their zeal to punish men even more after taking their children and their earnings the women's movement has used state legislators to punish men even more by taking their drivers license and professional licenses. This single act makes the least sense in this drama as it is counter-productive because it generally leads to the man losing his job and being unable to pay child support.

I would suggest a few simple fixes:
1. Award joint custody and joint child support in all cases. What ever the child support is determined to be each parent pays it equally and must prove that they use that amount of money for the child and not for themselves.
2. Treat the child support debt no different than any debt. No non-judicial punishment.

#4 OneGuy on 2023-09-06 11:19 (Reply)

OneGuy: A man literally cannot get custody of his children it is almost always given to the woman.

Most states have gender neutral rules; and while men often surrender custody, when contested, men actually win more disputed cases.

#4.1 Zachriel on 2023-09-06 11:48 (Reply)

Zachriel: What doesn't it know?

Astrophysicist, property lawyer, affirmative action expert, search engine, newspeak dictionary, constitutional scholar, carrier of Trump Derangement Syndrome, master of the non sequitur, pretentious movie critic, high school civics teacher, financial analyst, the ackchyually guy, nitpicker, Historical art critic, armchair economist, poverty expert, theoretician of science, Covid apologist, speech therapist, climate scientist, civil engineer, sociologist, political analyst, Biden apologist, divorce lawyer.

#4.1.1 eeyore on 2023-09-06 15:15 (Reply)

Zach - very much back in the day spouse was wont to come home and comment on a female co-worker with whom he did not feel comfortable.
I'm old and cranky but - back in the day - did have to cope with some unwonted advances, which I did. Never felt a victim, just cleaned this particular opportunist off my slate.
For the record, that was a great summer (at uni) and the rest of the men I worked with were really great. Still remember those days fondly.

#4.1.2 Frances on 2023-09-06 23:58 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Watch: Fauci Squirms As CNN Anchor Confronts Him With Data Showing Masks Don't Work . . . After Fauci claimed “there have been many studies indicate the benefit of wearing masks,” Anchor Michael Smerconish brought up the Cochrane review of masks, one of umpteen studies that have all found that the face coverings do little to nothing against COVID transmission.

That is incorrect. The Cochran review found it inconclusive as to whether mask interventions slowed the spread of respiratory disease. See the Cochrane Review, Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses, 2023: "The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions."

#5 Zachriel on 2023-09-06 11:24 (Reply)

Here, have fun.

#5.1 B. Hammer on 2023-09-06 11:53 (Reply)

B. Hammer: Here, have fun. "The paper, published in the August issue of the journal The Lancet Microbe, found that infected people presymptomatically—that is before they developed symptoms—very rarely had the ability to infect others."

That is not a correct summary. About 7% of emissions occurred presymptomatically. It's generally been believed that infectiousness is correlated with degree of symptoms. However, the study found that a small portion of people were superspreaders even when they had minor symptoms, even before testing is usually recommended. In other words, a slight case that people might just shake off could be a primary source of community spread.

#5.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-09-06 12:21 (Reply)

ChatGPT working overtime for the Quibble-DickZ today.

#5.1.1.1 Zachinoff on 2023-09-06 13:11 (Reply)

If you had read the entire article I linked, you would know that he talks about your very quibble. Calling it an incorrect representation of the study, is in fact, not correct.

#5.1.1.2 B. Hammer on 2023-09-06 13:57 (Reply)

B. Hammer: If you had read the entire article I linked, you would know that he talks about your very quibble.

We read the article and, more important, the actual study. You might respond to our points instead of waving them away: some virus is shed in nonsymptomatic persons, and a slight case that people might ignore could be a primary source of community spread. They also found that covering the nose with the mask is important to reducing infectivity.

#5.1.1.3 Zachriel on 2023-09-06 14:03 (Reply)

Which study are you referring to?

I find it hard to believe that you read both the linked article and the Lancet study in just under thirty minutes - the time that I linked to David Zweig and your response.

And now I notice that you are throwing around ‘we’, which is your typical grasp at authority. Are one of you a virologist?

#5.1.1.3.1 B. Hammer on 2023-09-06 16:00 (Reply)

B. Hammer: Which study are you referring to?

Zhou et al., Viral emissions into the air and environment after SARS-CoV-2 human challenge: a phase 1, open label, first-in-human study, The Lancet Microbe 2023.
Cochrane Review, Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses, 2023

We had already read both studies previously. We then read Zweig's article. His conclusion was that the best policy would have been “if you’re sick, stay home.” That, of course, was always standard policy. However, if that was the only recommended policy, then some people with very minor symptoms may have gone unmasked into public and become superspreaders.

As it was, Americans had very poor compliance with even the minimal policies. (A commenter on this blog even said he went into doctors' offices without covering his nose, even though there may very well have been people there who were immune compromised.)

#5.1.1.3.2 Zachriel on 2023-09-06 16:23 (Reply)

From https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full

QUOTE:

Medical/surgical masks compared to no masks
...Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.42; 6 trials, 13,919 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence)...

QUOTE:

N95/P2 respirators compared to medical/surgical masks
...The use of a N95/P2 respirators compared to medical/surgical masks probably makes little or no difference for the objective and more precise outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza infection (RR 1.10, 95% CI 0.90 to 1.34; 5 trials, 8407 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence). Restricting pooling to healthcare workers made no difference to the overall findings...

#5.2 mudbug on 2023-09-06 14:29 (Reply)

As already noted, they also said, "The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions." Is there a reason why this should be repeated?

#5.2.1 Zachriel on 2023-09-06 14:39 (Reply)

#5.2.1.1 eeyore on 2023-09-06 15:16 (Reply)

Ask yourself, why would an obvious troll hang out on a fairly conservative blog? Zach is clearly getting a pay cheque for his provocations. Ignore the tool. Take comfort knowing that there is no way he's getting away from what he's got coming. :)

#5.2.1.1.1 Lord Heathen on 2023-09-06 18:00 (Reply)

Lord Heathen: is clearly getting a pay cheque

Our opinions are our own and freely given. You’re welcome.

#5.2.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-09-06 22:12 (Reply)

"Our opinions are our own and freely given."

"Our" opinions...LOL. Groupthink.

#5.2.1.1.1.1.1 eeyore on 2023-09-07 08:40 (Reply)

How can schools dig out... the schools deserve to be buried. It is time to fund the student/parent rather than fund the government marxist institutions. The government/public school system will fight that, of course, as they lose money, control, and power. There is nothing as useless as a government monopoly of a service as incompetence reigns. Then address government 'health care'.

#6 indyjonesouthere on 2023-09-06 13:35 (Reply)

The link to medical doctor or social worker doesn't work.

#7 indyjonesouthere on 2023-09-06 13:43 (Reply)

Probably this one https://www.city-journal.org/article/medical-doctors-or-social-workers

#7.1 Tom Appleton on 2023-09-06 18:03 (Reply)

OMG. Social determinates in health. The social determinates of health are already taught as fact in most medial schools; activists want to go further.
What a sad assed commentary on the condition of the medical schools. This same situation is prevalent in the schools of education and appears to be occurring in law schools as well. Activists have destroyed the education system with the exception of most trade schools. I had seen them try at A&P school some years ago but they were confronted by the guys and the one girl in the school was just embarrassed by the administrator/activist.
Activists want equal outcome equity... the rest of us just want the product or service to work. The activist only succeeds in driving the prices through the roof and pissing the producers off or driving them out of the market.

#7.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-09-06 21:23 (Reply)

Mental health issues can affect physical health. Being around those with mental health issues is far more likely to affect your physical and mental health than their physical health. Especially the kids being caught up in the tranny fiasco.

#8 indyjonesouthere on 2023-09-06 13:50 (Reply)

It is obvious that Trump won't get a fair trial in any of the venues now pending. I think a change of venue is absolutely necessary. I would suggest a small town in Wyoming as probably the most fair and unbiased. Honk if you agree.

#9 OneGuy on 2023-09-06 18:04 (Reply)

"Emotional work should be compensated"--people confuse a desire to be paid with the idea that other people will voluntary give them money when they produce something valuable. If producing it causes distress (hard work, danger, physical or emotional pain), then it probably will pay higher, because it will be harder to find workers willing to do it. The pay isn't for the distress, though, it's for the value produced. The market drives the price higher.

#10 Texan99 on 2023-09-07 06:53 (Reply)

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