Our perceptions are real to us, and good enough for daily life. Can humans know real reality? I doubt it.

Your tax dollars at work: Scholars to study why $365M DEI investment into STEM failed to diversify engineering

 Global Boiling To Make Beer Taste Bad Or Something

 Climate ‘experts’ assure us they weren’t wrong, it was just a ‘miracle’ year

 The Offshore-Wind Boondoggle - Green advocates remain undaunted by the energy source’s surging costs and questionable efficiency.

 Fake Indian Elizabeth Warren Gets Roasted on Twitter for Posting Message About ‘Indigenous People’s Day’

 USC outdoors club for black students to combat ‘stigma,’ ‘racism’ in nature

 NYU Law School Bar Association's non-binary president Ryna Workman sends email saying Hamas' slaughter in Israel was 'NECESSARY' while refusing to condemn mass-murder of Jewish families

 Is Everything Suddenly Going to Hell? Or are people just starting to notice?

 BLM IS A RACIST HATE GROUP

Stuart's  Wednesday Potpourri

What is the Gaza Strip? 

Weiss:  When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them. This is what ‘decolonization’ really looks like. Look carefully at who is cheering it on.

 The real problem is Elon letting people see what Hamas videotaped themselves doing

 The Ideology of Mass Murder - Hamas and the origins of the October 7th attacks.

 Babies beheaded, 40 children shot dead in a single settlement, and families burnt alive by Hamas... SAM GREENHILL meets survivors of the death squads and hears their stories of unimaginable horror

Khamenei Distances Iran From Hamas Operation, Fearing Israeli Attack, As Rocket Salvo Fired From Lebanon

 "At first we were ecstatic": Gaza's FAFO moment and Iran's strategic miscalculation

 IDF: Gaza border sealed; 360,000 reservists mobilized for you-know-what

 One Tank’s Resolute Resistance Against the Hamas Incursion

 What Do You Know About 1491?

1491 is  a very cool book 

Summers: I've never been as disillusioned with Harvard as now

NYC Mayor: Maybe we should look at reparations too

 McCarthy: The US could be next, thanks to Biden's border crisis

 Victor Davis Hanson: Israel, Our White-House Absurdities, & The Left's Empire Of Lies

 Leftists Come Out in Support of Hamas Massacres, Send Money to Palestinians

 Israel Imposes Complete Siege on Gaza, Cuts Off Electricity, Fuel, Food, and Water Ahead of Ground Operation

 UAE Sides with Israel, Condemns Hamas for ‘Nihilistic Destruction’

 A Day at Corso Pilota Classiche, Ferrari’s Classic Driving School

 iOS 17 forces woman named ‘Siri’ to change her name

 More And More Detransitioners Are Taking The Fight To The Doctors Who Ruined Their Lives

A Nobel Prize and the Future of Vaccines

 For Love and Money: Desperate Housewives, Crypto Scammers, and More

 The Decline of the Met and the Rise of Woke Opera - "Dead Man Walking opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-24 season"

 ‘Ethnic Studies’ is CRT peddlers’ sneaky new way to stoke racial division in schools

 The New Push for Censorship Under the Guise of Combating Hate - How an obscure British nonprofit came to influence White House COVID policy and lead attacks on Elon Musk

 Update On Offshore Wind Projects Off The Mid-Atlantic And New England

 Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities

 Extremism In Defense Of Liberty Is No Vice - FBI Gears Up For Fresh Persecution Of Trump Voters :: Luxury Beliefs Prove Deadly :: SF Seeks Supreme Court Help On Homeless :: AOC, Machine Dem :: Corporate Lobbyist From MD Becomes Senator from CA

 Teachers Strike for Free Yoga While 79% of Students Don’t Meet Standards. The union is pressuring the district to provide free yoga and meditation programs

 Better Off Truant? Baltimore City Schools are so bad that kids might get more out of watching Sesame Street reruns.

 Washington DC crime is killing the city

 Biden 'Kicks' Dog As Rumors Of Animal Abuse Swirl

 Hillary Clinton Calls for “Formal Deprogramming” of Strong Trump Supporters

 Elderly Woman Escapes Nursing Home, Rants About Deprogramming The Populace

 AOC is upset the guy she recently endorsed for president is building a border wall

 WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST (UPDATED)

 Towards a Brave New World - Huxley’s dystopian novel was a warning, but we are systematically moving in the direction he indicated.

Kling:  The Trouble with (nonfiction) Books - Condense your thoughts!

 UK Prime Minister to prohibit cigarettes for UK citizens

 Schools adopted the wrong approach during the pandemic, now no one can fail

 Martina Navratilova has had it with this administration's embrace of a 'pathetic parody of women’

 Returning to Girliness

 The Economics of 'Free Stuff' Is That There's No Free Stuff

 Two Murders—and the Cost of Luxury Beliefs - The death of two progressive activists shocked the nation. And that says everything about crime and class in America.

Popcorn or toasted marshmallows? Watching the American news media collapse is entertaining.

 Brain health and exercise: Combining aerobic and strength training boosts cognitive health in elderly

 Economics Lessons from the Kibbutzim

Planned Parenthood is Helping Teenagers Transition After a 30 Minute Consult. 

 The Vatican’s New Exhortation On “Climate Change” Has Many Errors

 Offshore Wind Company Wants To Pay Large Fine To Break Contract In Latest Sign Of Trouble For Industry

 The Sexual Devolution

 Fury as women in tech conference is overrun with men claiming to be 'nonbinary' - who cut in front of female attendees to network with employers

 Today’s blacklisted American: Man’s life ruined because a black man slandered him for profit

 Famed MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer talks about his guilty-until-proven-innocent experience

 Central Park's Great Lawn had to be closed early due to damage from the Global Citizen Festival.

 Illegal Alien Invasion from Sea to Shining Sea!

 What hath Matt Gaetz wrought by tipping over the House apple cart?

 FBI Quietly Created New Category of Extremism Ahead of 2024 Election to Include Trump-MAGA Supporters

 American Homer - Celebrating the bicentenary of historian Francis Parkman, who produced a picture of America’s origins that remains unsurpassed

 ‘Female Titans’ Debate The Sexual Revolution: A Successful Movement That’s Failed Women

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri 

 Russian Constitution? U.S. Constitution? For U.S. college students, it’s all the same

"We're In The Middle Of A Revolution" - Victor Davis Hanson Warns Tucker: "The Next 12 Months Will Be The Most Explosive In History"

Really? 

 Poll confirms what we all know: Democrats in love with censorship

 A left-wing Philadelphia journalist who mocked concern over rising crime in Democrat-run cities was shot to death in his home.

 Texas congressman is victim of carjacking in Washington, D.C.

 Sweden May Use Army to Fight Muslim Gangs. "Irresponsible immigration policy and failed integration have brought us to this point."

John Stossel interviews former climate alarmist Judith Curry.

She kinda suggests following the money and the power.

Why fish oil supplements are basically worthless

 Why there’s no such thing as a ‘work-life balance,’ says career coach and author

 Men Leaving The Workforce Is Not A Win For Women

 Clemson removes tampon dispensers from men’s restrooms

 NPR Plans To Spend A Week On Global Boiling Solutions

 Education Secretary says he doesn't 'respect' parents thinking 'they know what's right for kids'. "There's a team that's fighting for kids and a team that's fighting against kids," Cardona said.

 Questioning Behavioral Economics

 Canada To Create Registry Of Podcasters In Potential Censorship Initiative 

 More Than One-Third of Democrat Voters Think Americans Have 'Too Much Freedom'

Bari Weiss:  How to Watch Our Sold-Out Debate. The First of Many. Priests, porn stars, and 1,600 Free Pressers walk into a theater. .

 Criminal-Friendly Seattle Is So Bad This Guy's Shocked When a Judge Won't Let Him Go

 German Government ‘Rebukes’ Elon Musk for Criticizing State-Funded NGOs Helping Illegal Migrant Cross Mediterranean. Musk: “Sounds a lot more like human trafficking than saving lives.”

 Tiny Mediterranean island w/ pop of 6K now clobbered by 10K "migrants" & counting

 California, the Great Destroyer

 Daily Mail Joins With African Migrants at the Daily Sold-Out Flight TK800 from Istanbul to Bogota Fueling the Surge at America’s Southern Border

 New York’s Fraud Law: Guilt, In Absence of Intent, Malice, Materiality, Damages or Actual Fraud

 Roberts, Kavanaugh Insist on Majority Dem Black Districts. To draw “two districts in which black voters... comprise a voting-age majority"

 The court takes on the administrative state

 THE CLINTONS WELCOME TRANS QUEENS, MUSLIM POLITICIANS, FOREIGN OLIGARCHS

 RFK goes rogue. He is almost certainly running for president as a third-party candidate

The Atlantic opines that many in GOP "are determined to help Russia." 

 Lindsay Graham Suggests If Conservatives Want Border Security They Will Have To Support Funding For Ukraine

 Sweden calling out the military to deal with crime, bombing crisis

The economics of thinness - It is economically rational for ambitious women to try as hard as possible to be thin

 The health debate that will not go away - Recent warn­ings on arti­fi­cial sweeten­ers are the latest in a series of scares, but the industry says sugar sub­sti­tutes remain a vital weapon in the fight against obesity and dia­betes.

 ‘Ridiculous’ Is the Word Real Estate Appraisers at Palm Beach Are Using To Describe the Value Being Put on Mar-a-Lago by Judge in Fraud Case Against Trump

 Gen Z unable to comprehend cursive

 Kindergartners In diapers: A growing trend

 The satire site Babylon Bee’s fight against New York’s insane online speech law is not funny

 Lefty censors stifle free speech in high school debate, classrooms

 He, She, They: The Pronoun Debate Will Likely Land at the Supreme Court

 The Communication Revolution - Like the first iPhone, Gutenberg’s Bible opened up avenues of development that entrepreneurs have been exploiting ever since.

 Yet Another Fear-Mongering COVID Surge Turns Into Trickle As Hospital Admissions Wane

 Joe Biden’s Words Come Back to Haunt Him as Wyoming Town’s Entire Electric Bus Fleet Breaks Down

 Here's how we know that climate change hysteria is bunkum

 NYU caves to students, divests from fossil fuels

 Something Has Gone Seriously Wrong With “Climate Change” Science

" “These kids can’t read. They can’t write a sentence. They don’t know what state they live in. No math skills. They can’t even attend to a three-minute video clip.” Don’t say you weren’t warned."

 The Don't Hire Women Act?

 NYT ‘Fearless’ Writer Advises Men To Ditch Masculinity. But That’s Why So Many Men Are Depressed.

 Our Failing Cultural Revolution

 A left-wing take on the fall of Ibram Kendi: He gave white liberals what they wanted

Elon Musk's SpaceX Wins Space Force Contract As Democrat Efforts To Cancel Him Fail 

A book: Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It 

That one company has lots of competition 

Normal Anxiety 

 We served our wedding guests McDonald's - trolls say we're cheap, but our guests loved it and we saved loads of money

 Cornell renames English Department as part of 'decolonization efforts.' Check out the new name.

 California School District Considers Removing Honors Courses For Sake Of "Equity"

 But Johnny Can’t Spell G-A-Y - With large majorities of their students incompetent in English and math, Los Angeles schools are ramping up efforts—for more gay pride and gender indoctrination.

Re The NYT:

 Reporter who wrote in NYT that 900,000 children had been hospitalized with COVID when the real number was 63,000—and that 4,000 had died from MISC-C when the real number was 68—tells Harvard governments should be more active in policing “misinformation.”

 Looting rocks Philly for a SECOND night: Brazen thieves rip out safe and lottery machine of closed liquor store in latest flash mob crime to hit City of Brotherly Love

Where's the social contract/compact? 

 Our Society Is Melting Down Even Faster Than Most People Thought That It Would

 Don't Look Now, but a Rebellious NYC Borough Is Winning the Fight Against Biden's Illegal Hordes

 TGIF: The Book of Revelations - Trump is a person of faith. RFK Jr. is a 9/11 truther. NYC turns MAGA. Plus, I must confess. . . I really like Gavin Newsom.

 Chief of Staff of Pentagon Counterterrorism Office Served Iranian Gov.

 Justin Trudeau’s Self-Immolation - The Canadian prime minister has alienated the largest democracy on Earth and played host to a former Nazi. And that was just this week

Stuart takes a look at Thomas Sowell's new book, Social Justice Fallacies.

Here's a new interview with Sowell (age 93):

 10 Guaranteed Ways To Impress Your Wife

Most Americans think that other people view pornography more often than they do, study finds

 Commander Biden bites another Secret Service agent, the 11th known incident

 You may not be aware of it-- I certainly wasn’t-- but American mothers are being consumed by rage.

 Why ‘the penis question’ matters - How can anyone trust a politician who doesn’t know what a woman is?

 Nurses Repurposed

 UK Study: Puberty Blockers Given to Teens -- Worsened Their Mental Illnesses Rather Than Abating Them

 "A CIA Front Organization": Revisiting EcoHealth COVID-19 Claims After Fauci 'Influence' Campaign Bombshell

  Elon Musk Posts Hilarious Video Exposing Big Pharma and Dr Fauci’s Lies About Vaccine Efficacy and Safety

 The Retail Theft Rampage Gets Worse. Target closes nine stores in four states because of crime, as looters run riot in Philadelphia.

 Dershowitz: Menendez Indictment Not Equal Justice

 Boston University will investigate Kendi center after ignoring questions for years

 Michelle Obama Charged $750,000 For a Single One-Hour Speech

Even Bill Gates is backtracking — the air’s gone out of the climate-crisis balloon

 Victor Davis Hanson: Is The Left Happy That They Got Their Wish?

 Pro-hotel, anti-Airbnb regs kill the little guy: NYC politics as usual

 Death Of Free Speech: EU Signs Law To ‘Police’ The Entire Internet And Takes Down Websites With Unapproved Speech

Heather MacDonals - racist 

WSJ: The New Moral Order Is Already Crumbling. Globalism, climate-change alarmism and cultural self-annihilation have all come under serious challenge.

Powerline:  In one sense, the root cause of all crime is the human propensity to do evil. But the root cause of fluctuations in crime rates–the cause of our current spike in violent crime–is a weakening of social norms...

 Controlling Crime in Urban America

El Paso Democrat mayor sends five chartered buses to New York, Chicago, and Denver

 Border Bypass: Biden Admin Lets 221K+ Migrants Fly Directly Into U.S.

 WHY WON’T BIDEN CLOSE THE BORDER?

Photo for our Woodchuck-hating readers. Our guy likes the tomatoes I put on the table to ripen

Zombie Salmon

 More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5

 The Strategy of Dating Short Men - Why don't more women use it?

 How Trauma Can Become a Catalyst for Personal Growth. For some people, adversity isn’t something to just get past. As I discovered, it can also be the impetus for new, positive behaviors.

 Mayo clinic now says hydroxychloroquine MAY be used to treat...whut?

 Medical Examiner’s Office source: Only 1 to 2 percent of 'COVID deaths' were really COVID

 Why Is Anxiety Rising? Fears of extinction, Covid, socializing and a second Trump term are all at play.

 Why are so many young men so angry online?

 There is no such thing as a ‘sex spectrum.’

 Is Censorship a Partisan Issue?

 Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?

Is the Americal left happy they got their wishes? 

 No surrender: More migrant buses sent by Governor Abbott are New York City bound

 New York Post Sends Reporter to Restaurants Dressed Like Sen. John Fetterman- He is Refused Entry

 Senate Relaxes Rules To Allow Fetterman To Take Baths In Reflecting Pool

 Reading this week’s news of the Biden Administration, I kept thinking of the Three Stooges poking fingers in each other’s eyes.

 WEIMAR 2? Destroying the German economy isn’t easy, but that country’s government is working hard at it. 

 France: Foreigners Commit 69% Of Robberies, Violent Crimes & Sexual Assaults On Public Transport

Russian Foreign Minister Says U.S. 'Directly at War' With Russia in Ukraine

We Can't See the First Stars Yet, but We Can See Their Direct Descendants

Truth or Dare questions from Seventeen Magazine 

61% of David Brooks' airport meal was alcohol

 Bryn Mawr College rolls out 59-point plan to combat ‘privilege, oppression perpetuated at the college’

 KIPP Gets Children Into College. More evidence that charter schools lift student performance.

 Heather Mac Donald challenges BLM student protesters in tense talk at Berkeley Law

 Shaming Crime - Rather than glorifying and excusing lawbreaking, Americans could learn something from Asian cultures’ attitude toward such behavior.

 Portland’s Police Staffing Crisis: What It Is, Why It Is, and How to Fix It

 Democrat mayor of Eagle Pass: Joe Biden sent the message the border is open

 Willie Wilson: Chicago taxpayers deserve transparency on migrant spending

 NIALL FERGUSON: I urged Biden to run for President in 2016, now I implore him to do the smart thing and retire

 Zelensky Departs Washington Mostly Empty-Handed Amid Mood Shift In West

 Zelensky forced to make an impossible sell. There are limits to what he can achieve with one more drab olive green reminder of his needs in Washington

Why is this happening?

 Biden Protects 472,000 Venezuelan Illegals from Deportation. Maybe next time it'll be a million.

 Don’t blame migrants — it’s Biden’s open-border plan that’s fueling hardship

 Biden handing out protected status like candy

 You might call it a crisis by design, to coin an Insta-phrase.

Inescapable Disparities - Thomas Sowell’s new book reminds us that the world has never been a level playing field and we will not be able to engineer one.

 Can You Find God in a Bikini? In a city where religion is dead, the young search for a higher power—in a sauna with Diplo.

 Will Understanding 'Brain Energy' Help Resolve America’s Current Mental Health Crisis?

Everything is a crisis nowadays

 Long Covid is a new name for an old syndrome

Re  Watching Girls Die

 Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all, study suggests 

 The Case for Mediocrity