How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’? A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.

 FINALLY! First new nuclear reactor in more than 30 years comes online

 A Racist Smear. A Tarnished Career. And the Suicide of Richard Bilkszto.

 The Medical Establishment Has Succumbed to Gender Madness 

 Being Drunk Excuses Crashing Semi

 Incandescent Light-Bulb Ban Started On August 1; Gas-Stove Ban Coming Next

 Nobel scientist’s speech canceled after criticizing climate alarmists

 Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Produce A Crippling Decline In Human Well-Being

 The unexpected pitfalls of work-from-home parenthood - For all its benefits, the practice can be a double-edged sword — especially for moms.

 America’s Failing Schools

 Study Huge Numbers Of Kids Permanently Damaged By Lockdowns

 UMich, NIH to spend nearly $80 million as part of ‘DEI 2.0’

 Workers to Employers: We’re Just Not That Into You. In the postpandemic economy, we’re living more and working less

Columbia Law Schools Tried to End-Run the Affirmative Action Ruling

Reynolds: Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone. Thoughts on education, age segregation, and politics

 Our Ongoing Cultural Revolution

 The Culture of Transgression - Our antinomian elite’s war against tradition has become a war against the working class

 US Economy Braces For Chaos As $1.5 Trillion Student-Loan Pause Ends

 Central Park among NYC areas considered to house migrants: ‘Everything is on the table'

RFK Jr was compulsive womanizer 

That is news? 

 Anything Democrats Don’t Like Is Now A ‘Threat To Democracy’

 Indicting Trump for political schemes overshadows the actual bad things in politics

 Not everything that’s bad in politics is illegal – especially in a country that has the First Amendment.

 Another Troubling Trump Indictment - Special counsel Jack Smith’s broad theory of fraud has dangerous implications.

 Special Counsel Jack Smith Has Done the Job He Was Hired to Do

 "Until it is proved otherwise, I will find it extremely hard to believe that the president was a party to his son’s nefarious schemes."

Is time a real thing, or a human illusion? Physicists wonder.

I just happen to be reading (among other things) an old Michael Crichton book Timeline.  It's sort-of about time travel. Exciting.

At Powerline.  I understand the crossing of the Rio Grande illegally, but how did all of those Africans get to NYC? Strange.

The Roosevelt, next to Grand Central Terminal, used to be a hotel. 

Stuart's  Wednesday Potpourri

 It’s the Year of Universal School Choice, but Barriers Remain. Despite growing momentum, restrictions hinder full access to educational options.

 ‘How Do I Do That?’ The New Hires of 2023 Are Unprepared for Work

 Where woke math goes to die

" The scientists we previously trusted are increasingly abandoning science and replacing it with leftist ideological dictates."

 The Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Starts Today

 Does it seem as though every news story lately is on climate doom?

 New IPCC chief: stop with the apocalypse talk

 Climate protestors are on everyone's last nerve

 "Think of the Implications of Publishing", A whistleblower shares shocking details of corruption of peer review in climate science

 Companies With Good ESG Scores Pollute Just As Much As Those With Low Ones, New Analysis Finds

 Where Have You Gone Woodward and Bernstein?

 It’s Year 5 Of The Biden Crime Family Coverup

" At this point, it’s getting a little ridiculous and frankly, transparent, as to how hard the Biden administration seems to be working to try to take Trump out of the race with lawfare and indictments..."

In 2019, President Donald Trump was impeached for raising the issue of a potential corruption scandal involving Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Burisma. 

 Are You My Momager?

 The Misunderstood Reason Millions of Americans Stopped Going to Church

 How Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.

 Diesel Generators Used to Charge Electric Garbage Trucks

 Transgender America Fights Back - From sanctuary states to the courts, lawyers and political allies resist Republican bans on transgender care for minors

Banks were suspicious  of the Bidens 

 As Oakland Slides Into Chaos, Its District Attorney Fights For Criminals

An Impoverished Europe

 Man who spent $14K to transform himself into collie steps out for first-ever walk in public

" . In the U.S., the EPA’s own ‘Heat Wave Index’ for the continental states shows that the 1930s was by far the hottest decade of the last century.”

 Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley.

 The Return of MDMA - Some doctors are itching to prescribe ecstacy again. How do we avoid the regulatory mistakes of the '80s?

Neuroscientists shed new light on the roots of interpersonal neural synchrony during social interactions

 Scrappy local paper takes on San Francisco's homeless-industrial complex

 What History Teaches Us About the Importance of Academic Freedom - This 1949 primer shows us there’s nothing new about today’s controversies about free speech on campus.

 How big tech and big money made our schools go woke

 Does Ukraine really have a neo-Nazi problem? US officials won’t say

" By allowing Ukraine to get involved in a conflict with Russia, Zelensky committed one of the greatest lunacies that can be perpetrated by a head of state. "

People of all ages love it. I think it's like large-scale Ping Pong. 

Try it sometime.

Besides that this guy's level of self-esteem irks me, I feel that he is living in another world. Guess I am a plain bourgeois, worthy of hanging.

Nobody's Fool, by Richard Russo

 From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story.

Maine- Versus Connecticut-Style

Boris Johnson on Barbie 

Politics of Autism 

Bummer: It’s Not Your Fault For The Summer Heat Wave

 A century of climate change and media alarmism

 Our schools are not OK

WEF advisor: COVID is a model for making change

Emails show the NYT got played by COVID ‘experts’

 Emails Show Fauci Knew From A 2020 Federalist Article That Masking Was Ineffective But Demanded It Anyway

 The Real Cost of an Open Border: How Americans are Paying the Price

Hunter Biden story is MAGA propaganda 

 The Bidens: "Stone Cold Crooked" 

  Biden-Harris Regime DENY Secret Service Protection for RFK Jr

The Nation:  The Teamsters’ Proposed Agreement With UPS Is a Great Victory by and for the Workers. But the working class needs much more. And these moments when workers have huge strategic power in a tight labor market are fleeting.

 Harm City - Crime-ridden, dysfunctional Baltimore desperately needs new leadership—and more cops.

They got my Zucchini this week, but not my yellow squash (yet). Nature is a meanie.

Squash Borers. 

It feels good to me. There are only about 10 days/year when I do not hear somebody bitch about weather. New England.

" There are two classes in the Climate Cult: The Grifter Elites and the Brainwashed Faithful."

Sexy song:

Is Taylor Swift really Barbie?

 Scholars and activists in the field of fat studies do not believe that there is an obesity-related health crisis at all.

Well, everything is a "crisis", right? 

 DEI director fired for rejecting ‘toxic racist ideologies’ files wrongful termination lawsuit

Govt and scientists lied about the lab leak 

Governments lie

 E.U. Law Threatens Free Speech, Online Groups Say. The E.U.’s Digital Services Act will encourage censorship around the world and even in the U.S.

 TGIF: The ‘X’ Files

Why did Elon kill Twitter? How did Hunter Biden get rich off his art? Who put the Nazi symbol in DeSantis’s ad? Are aliens among us? The truth is in here…

 ‘Gender Clinics’ Shutting Down Due to Red State Bans

 California’s new math

Bud Light To Lay Off Hundreds Of Employees In Wake Of Disastrous Pro-Trans Marketing

Have to feel bad for them 

Baltimore update 

Sad 

 San Francisco Mayor: We Should ‘Get Rid of Most Taxes’ to Attract Businesses

  New York Post Editor Details Coordinated Social Media Censorship Of Biden Family Corruption

Babesiosis was on my mind because a pal recently got sick after a tick bite. I've had countless tick bites, but never got ill after one.

And I see that AVI just got it too. Sheesh. Like Lyme, same darn kind of deer tick (not an ordinary dog tick. We're all used to dog ticks).

Anyway, Babesiosis is a nasty consequence if you get bitten by a bad tick.  

Why do so many people appear to want a government to determine what is true?  Strange, especially in the USA.

As American-bred, I never trust government. Government is another special interest group. Government people lie all the time, for their greater good.

Tough with kayaks too

What is an NPC? 

 Woman Found Dead After Grizzly Bear Encounter Near Yellowstone

 Bidens’ dog Commander involved in biting incidents as White House says he’s getting more training

  "Gluttony had a good run as a cardinal sin, but it's just not that big of a deal anymore," 

 What could possibly cause a teen athlete’s heart to stop? Bronny James’s heart reportedly stopped during practice. Incidents like this are rare but explainable.

 As evidence mounts against their position, how long will proponents of “gender-affirming care” for minors hold out?

Why journalists should be skeptical of scientists

 Anthony Fauci Behind Covid Origins Disinformation, Evidence Suggests. Communications between scientists show pressure from “higher ups” to dismiss the lab leak theory of Covid origins

 Harvard ethics professor allegedly fabricated multiple behavioral science studies

NYC to illegals:  We're kicking you out. Find somewhere to go.

 “Western Military Officials Knew Kiev Didn’t Have the Training or Weapons to Dislodge Russian Forces”

 China abandons Paris Climate Accords

I never thought of Wellfleet on Cape Cod as an elite place, but it's very pleasant. The f-ing sharks (I didn't mind the seals before the sharks found them) are a major downer because body surfing in the chilly ocean is one of the coolest things in life.

And, no, nothing about climate. Great Whites don't care about temperature - only about food. 

Fact is, risk is very low but so is golfing in a thunderstorm.