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 An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe

Yeah. I thought it was my tinnitus but it's probably climate change 

World Gone Cuckoo - Theodore Dalrymple

Spectator:  You can never escape the suburbs. How I learned to stop worrying and love the ’burbs

 Netherlands euthanizing autistic and intellectually handicapped people, researcher finds

 Jordan Peterson battles in court over demand to undergo remedial training or lose license

 UCLA refuses to hire professor who criticised DEI. Yoel Inbar's appointment has been blocked by a student petition

 The Demise of the Garage Inventor - How Hollywood forgot the tinkering dad

 NYC Mandates All Pizza Must Be Cooked Under A Bathroom Hand Dryer

 SWEDEN GOES NUCLEAR

 Man, I love hard work. I could watch it all day.

Closing schools, forcing them to wear masks and endure the hardships of social distancing, and vaccinating them, could only be justified in terms of stopping community spread. None of these measures had a reasonable impact on the dynamics of infection.

 At $200B, COVID Aid was the Biggest Fraud in History. "17 percent of all funds issued under the two programs"

 Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs Signs Executive Order to Allow State Employee to Have Sex Change Surgeries Covered By Health Insurance

Sheesh. At the least it's cosmetic surgery for Self-dysphoria

 "Nonbinary" claims in NJ are "skyrocketing"

 250 Hollywood Celebrities Sign Letter Demanding Big Tech Censor Anyone Who Opposes Trans Surgeries On Kids

Social contagion is an interesting phenomenon 

 Even progressive voters don’t like racial affirmative action

Ramaswamy on cultural rot

 THE NEW YORK TIMES CONFIRMS IT: IRS WHISTLEBLOWER TOLD THE TRUTH

 Still Waiting For The Magical Future Of Free Wind Power

 Why Pride lost the public - ‘Gays and women are bearing the brunt of the gender ideology nonsense’

 NYT Accidentally Shows Why Sex Changes Are So Dangerous

Economist: Should you send your children to private school? As shortcuts to elite universities, American schools work better than British ones

 School performance is even worse than you think

 Biden Admin Says Its COVID Spending for Schools Will Boost Test Scores. Districts Used the Funds for Staff Bonuses.

 Professor admits American flag makes him 'anxious' during Flag Day interview

 Out-of-Touch Obama in Massive Self-Awareness Fail

 NYC Milestone: Migrants Outnumber New Yorkers in Homeless Shelters

 Tucker Carlson Dares To Ask "Why Exactly Are We At War With Russia?"

Malls:  The Allure of Ruins

Trusties and Lusties, Dads and Cads 

 The great vegan rollout has been halted in its salty, sugary, ultra-processed tracks

 NYC to Crack Down on Wood-Fired Pizza Joints to Reduce Carbon Emissions by Up to 75%

 The Economics Behind Grandma’s Tuna Casseroles - Don’t judge yesteryear’s cooking by today’s standards.

Why so many government lies about COVID? 

...any news from Ukraine or Russia?  Hinderaker, who I like and respect, believes this BS. 

There are no good guys in all of this, including NATO and the US along with Ukraine and Russia. Just my view. Furthermore, NATO is obsolete but it's fun for them to find a Kabuki role. Oh, also, where's the UN? Worrying about the weather, I guess. Mission creep - they do nothing.

Sunday follow-up  - Probably nothing was what it seemed

 Newly discovered ‘Stonehenge of the Netherlands’ is 4,000 years old

 Macon Bacon Baseball Team Facing Calls to Change Name, Stop ‘Glorification of Bacon’

 Why should lesbians sleep with men? Sexual preference is now a moral crusade

 California Bill Would Enable Therapists to ‘Emancipate’ 12-Year-Olds from Their Own Parents

" I am so old, I can remember when the New Republic was a respectable magazine. "

 Harvard police under fire for swatting incident, arresting more blacks than whites

Hunter Biden to Chinese Businessman: “I Am Sitting Here Waiting for the Call With My Father.”

 Admit It Libs—Even You Wouldn't Want Hunter Biden Dating Your Daughter

 Biden Dons Feathered Headdress To Welcome Indian Prime Minister

 Psychiatrist who called Trump supporters mentally ill loses in court against Yale

Atlantic: What is Milk? 

 POWER LINE U ON ‘A PLAGUE OF MODELS’

Who believes models? 

Navy Knew Titan Submarine Imploded Days Ago – Military Acoustic Detection System Picked Up Implosion Hours After Vessel Began Its Exploration

Yeah, I figgered that 

 Censorship Is What They Demand When Their Propaganda Fails. When elites start demanding the silencing of their opponents, it's a sign that people have stopped believing the Big Lie

 Oregon County Sues Fossil Fuels Companies For Almost $52 Billion

 What does it say about our culture when physicians are afraid to speak the truth about transgenderism, for fear of being ostracized from their profession?

TGIF: Plumbing the Depths - Elon & Zuck are fighting. Muslims & Christians are uniting. Hunter Biden gets off. Meghan & Harry get sacked. Plus, a Titanic trip ends in tragedy.

 IS THE COVER-UP UNRAVELING?

Nope 

 IRS Whistleblowers Release New Bombshell Evidence Against Bidens, DOJ And AG Garland

Doesn't matter 

 Greta Thunberg’s Beginning of the End of the World Prediction Was for Today, June 21st

Silly girl. Hope she's making $ 

 Adam Smith at 300: The Gospel of Mutual Service. A 1926 lecture captures timeless truths about the Scottish thinker.

 True Love Breaks a Marriage

Going to college still looks to most Americans as a better choice than going to war or a life of dissolution, but recent evidence suggests that students completing high school are beginning to rethink the idea that college is necessarily the best path.

NYT: Lab-grown chicken 

 Thrown to the Wolves - A physician reveals the nightmare of transgender ideology in a major children’s hospital.

In the US:  “In the eyes of the state, parents who reject gender ideology are abusers of children.”

 Sanity Across the Pond - In the U.K., government officials finally discuss openly the problems with gender ideology.

Update on the War on Poverty

 Dems hold their ears as Durham exposes FBI’s partisan corruption

 RFK, Jr. makes a climate speech in Vermont 

LA Times says RFK Jr is a threat to democracy 

 Muslim-American scholar defends marriage to 9-year-old girls

It's a different culture 

 China Is Ready for a World of Disorder. America Is Not

 Climate Change Turns Out To Be a 71-Year-Old Guy Named Ed

 Pandemic Learning Slide Continues for 13-Year-Olds, Making Full Recovery Unlikely

 What Can We Do About Pandemic-Related Learning Loss? Remote school was devastating for many students. In Richmond, Virginia, a plan to switch to a year-round calendar brought promise and pushbac

Spectator:  Why civics test scores are falling in American schools - For the next generation, history isn’t being rewritten. It’s being intentionally obscured

 Why scrapping standardized tests is bad for college applicants

 Florida Teacher Fired for Comparing Students' Skin to Coffee

 The Ideological Subversion of Biology

 Chris Licht and the Decline of Journalism

Chris Christie: We should definitely mutilate children's genitals

 Good News: Biden Regime Just Gave China Greenlight To Invade Taiwan

 The Failing Ukraine Counteroffensive & The Peace That Could Have Been

 Europe in Decline

Are You Ready For Today's Juneteenth Federal Holiday?

 Index Investing is Misunderstood. The goal is to optimize, not to average

Table salt vs. Kosher salt 

Is Lightin The Box a Chinese scam company? 

 Bud Light Just Wants to Get Back to Making Beer, Sponsoring Pro-Child Mutilation Parades, But there's also a listening tour.

NYT: The moral crisis of America's doctors

 WILL THE REAL BLACK MAN PLEASE STAND UP?

 How the identity cult captured America. Equity was born in an ideological graveyard

 Research: 1-in-4 U.S. Children Live in Fatherless Homes, Spurring Mental Health and Behavioral Issues

Spectator:  My evening pretending to be a woman - I decided to give autogynephilia a try

 Girl sues hospital for removing breasts at age 13

Thus it begins 

 Anatomy of a Scientific Scandal - Under pressure, a journal once notable for its courage retracts a major paper on the social roots of gender-related distress—all over a minor, inconsistently applied technicality.

 BORIS JOHNSON: The wonder drug I hoped would stop my 11.30pm fridge raids for cheddar and chorizo didn’t work for me. But I still believe it could change the lives of millions

 New Cleveland Clinic Study Confirms Negative Efficacy of Covid Vaccine: Boosted 33% MORE Likely to Get Covid

 New York State’s Directive to Schools: Lie to Parents. Secret gender transition is now the default policy for the state’s public schools.

 New York Office Occupancy Breaks 50% for First Time Since Pandemic Hit

 Good Morning America Reporter in San Francisco Says They’re Not Filming Downtown Because They Were Told it’s too Dangerous

 California Is Killing Fast Food Jobs. California lawmakers and President Joe Biden seem determined to help fast-food workers by eliminating their jobs.

Here's a book: How to Diversify your Campus 

 Washington Post helps those who are intimidating lawyers into not working for Trump 

 "We Are Restricting Freedom... For The Common Good": Irish Green Party Calls For Limiting Free Speech

 The revolutionary power of heresy - Freedom of speech has toppled tyrants and propelled humanity forward. We lose it at our peril.

 Americans Assume the Jihad Is Over. In Africa, It's Bloodier and More Aggressive Than Ever.

 Biden Announces By 2025 All Wildfires Must Be Electric

 Gen Z, Millennials lazier workers than Gen X and Boomers: study

Chronicle on shoddy data

 A brand new study from the Cleveland Clinic is out. And it found something we already knew: Covid vaccines increase the chances of getting Covid instead of being protective.

Medicine and politics don't mix. Well Mrs. BD and I were dutiful about vaccines (so we could travel). She had a bad case, I never had any problem. Anecdotal. 

 Canceled professor got $500,000 payout after forced resignation from medical journal

 Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

 Elon Musk hires 'profoundly gifted' 14-year-old to work on satellite team at SpaceX as 'youngest employed software engineer on the planet'

Cool. What about child labor laws? 

 Inside the war tearing psychoanalysis apart: 'The most hatred I’ve ever witnessed'

Medicine and politics don't mix

 Dem Expert Witness Couldn’t Cite Evidence of Benefits of Trans Procedures for Children

 Politicians In Our Major Cities Have Decided The Solution To The Crime Wave Is To Help Criminals Commit More Crimes

 Why We Find Ourselves Unable to Look Away From the Hysterical News Cycle/There’s absolutely nothing we can do about these news events, anyway.

I do not use a TV 

 Do Not Underestimate Russia’s Resolve

 Grand Canyon Visitor Dies Attempting Ambitious Day Hike. Indiana woman was found without a pulse along Bright Angel Trail

 The economics of extortion: Theory and the case of the Sicilian Mafia

The Sicilian Mafia is just a government 

 IBM quantum computer passes calculation milestone. ‘Benchmark’ experiment suggests quantum computers could have useful real-world applications within two years.

Men and Women at Work

 Springfield College tells students to avoid using terms 'mother' and 'father'

 Portland Sobers Up. After years of disorder and misgovernance, the City of Roses is taking steps to reverse its decline.

 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN COLLEGES GET CAUGHT

 ‘Can dissenters survive’? Princeton panel explores effect of wokeness on professors

 Anatomy of a Scientific Scandal - Under pressure, a journal once notable for its courage retracts a major paper on the social roots of gender-related distress—all over a minor, inconsistently applied technicality.

That's been happening. Politics meets science 

 Jake is a trans man. He froze his eggs. Then he met Hannah, a trans woman. Now they have two children

 Public education is collapsing in blue cities

 After two years, Berkeley turns over documents which show faculty hiring was based on commitment to DEI

 TGIF: Fortune Does Not Favor the Brave. Trump’s indicted, but ignited. Lesbians love ‘non-men.’ Modelo Especial is the new King of Beers. Plus: crypto scams, $200 for brains, and much more.

The CDC Wears No Clothes 

 Covid planners gave ‘potentially massive’ lockdown impact ‘very little thought’

 Some real pushback: Former Starbucks employee, fired to give Starbucks a white scapegoat, wins $25 million in lawsuit

 Critics and AI fearmongers can’t escape one ineluctable fact: there is no way to put the AI gini back in its bottle.

 Trump dangerously thinks he can get justice in this milieu.

 DeSantis Derangement Syndrome

  At the same time, the opponents of aid to Ukraine do make valid points.

 Anger Grows Across Europe Over EU's Mandatory Migrant Quotas

 Why are there 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour ?

Layers: How women dressed in 1896 

Modelo now #1 in US beer sales. Of course, Anheuser-Busch owns a lot of Modelo 

 Missouri man dies after eating raw oysters and contracting flesh-eating bacteria

Bummer, but I will not be scared 

 Princeton issues guidelines for ‘Consent on the Dance Floor’

What?

 AMA Doubles Down on Gender-Affirming Care for Kids

"Care" 

 McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring - In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happen.

It's about dangerous people 

 Queering Jesus: How It's Going Mainstream at Progressive Churches and Top Divinity Schools

 When LGBT Activists Flood Target With Bomb Threats, Media Pretend Conservatives Did It

 Eat, Pray, Cringe: Elizabeth Gilbert Cancels Herself

 The Back to the Office Movement

 The work-from-home fanatics owe the rest of us an apology

 The reactionary turn against the sexual revolution

 THE DAILY CHART: BLACK SHOOTINGS

Sad: Biden wants a railroad across the Pacific

 Cormac McCarthy, among America’s greatest authors, dies at 89

I read everything he wrote. It's all intense.

 America’s Love Affair with Adderall, And what happened when we were forced to live without it.

I have ADD. Adderal is good, but I never used any stimulants though I'm certain I'd do better with them. Well, that's not entirely true because some stimulant (speed) sped me through learning German in college.

 How to Clean an Over and Under Shotgun

The White House Isn't So Proud of What Happened at Its Pride Party

 Trust the science? Prestigious Johns Hopkins University erases women from woke new inclusive language guide that describes lesbians as 'non-men attracted to non-men,' - but still refers to male gays as 'men'

"Non-men"? 

 First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources. The three scientists were engaged in “gain-of-function” research on SARS-like coronaviruses when they fell ill

 Mainstream media is wrong about affirmative action. The 'life support' narrative is intended to throw people into a crazy whirlpool of believing that Black Americans are not going to get into college because conservative justices sit on the Supreme Court.

 Tucker Carlson reveals the 'precise moment' Washington decided to 'send Donald Trump to prison' in third Twitter show - as he claims former president has made a 'blood enemy' of the Federal Government and slams charges

 How Not to Conduct Foreign Policy

The case against morality. The world will never be like the US - and the US is not always so pure anyway

 While his case will ultimately rise or fall on its merits, it is indisputable that Trump is being treated far more harshly than either Biden or Clinton were under very similar circumstances. 

All three kept classified documents where and when they shouldn’t have.

Only one is being prosecuted. 

 The Unexpected Name Brands Behind Costco’s Store Label Products

" I’m a forty-year-old male Swiftie. No, I’m not ashamed. Taylor Swift is the finest tune crafter of the last generation — maybe even the last two"

Mel Brooks turns 97 

In the UK, keep kids away from pizza

Lab-grown meat 

 Death of the professions

Telegraph: Schoolgirl identifies as a cat 

 Hail to the Brave Parents Who've Had Enough of the Sexualization of Children

 NYC private schools teaching ‘sexuality curriculum’ in woke kindergarten classes

 Charter schools outperform public schools in US, with NY results ‘among the best in the country’

 Paranoia in the Paper - A New York Times article inadvertently helps show why black Americans distrust the police.

It's always been Get Trump 

 Maddow Admits It's Really About Getting Trump Out of Race

 Thoughts On The Federal Trump Indictment: It's Shockingly Weak

 China To Build Spy Base In Cuba Focused On Intercepting Communications Within U.S.: Report

 Our China Self‐​Own - Failing to improve our immigration policy gives our biggest competitor a leg up on skilled labor.

 What's Wrong with Latin America?

 This New Mega Virus Is Actually Good for the Future of Humanity. Promise. It carries a whopping 171,000 strands of DNA.

 This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale. Hired as customer service reps, these freelancers were instead tasked with luring in the lonely and lovestruck through a network of dating and hookup sites.

Edication: There is something so banal, even embarrassing, in the aggressive positivity and predictable cant ...

 The End of Progressive Intellectual Life - How the Foundation-NGO complex quashed innovative thinking and open debate, first on the American right and now on the center-left

 Nearly one in three Gen Zers want the government to install surveillance cameras in everyone's homes

 Government control and over-regulation are driving insurers out of California

The End Of Easy Money: Bankruptcy Filings Pile Up At Fastest Rate Since 2010

 New York City’s Democrat Mayor Eric Adams is attempting to sue rural counties in New York state for refusing to accept the illegal immigrants he wants to send them.

 Taibbi: Does Anyone Believe American Propaganda Anymore?

 Swedish Prime Minister: “Massive  Immigration Just Doesn’t Work”. Announces new measures to make border policy strictest in Europe.

 Washingtons State's 'Equity' Director Pink-Slipped Over Allegations of Racism

 Red Sox Pitcher Cut Loose After Offending the Thought Police

Dershowitz:  The most dangerous indictment in US history

 National Health Service in Great Britain bans puberty blockers

 Gender’s Truth-Distortion Field - Across the English-speaking world, the discussion of trans rights is governed by taboos, sacred myths, and, in some cases, outright lies.

Trump indictment seems OK if appliced equally 

Back from a lengthy sabbatical, our pal in Maine at Sippican Cottage 

Fires:  In a 2020 ProPublica article, journalist Elizabeth Weil pointed out that California officials have turned the state into a tinderbox through years of fire suppression.

I am against fire suppression. It is unnatural. 

 Climate change didn’t cause Canada’s wildfires - Lightning has been starting forest fires for millennia

Had the wind been different, nobody would have noticed. Canada always has fires. 

 Rigorous new study of studies finds that lockdowns, not COVID, caused the destruction

 INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY U.S. HAS RETRIEVED CRAFT OF NON-HUMAN ORIGIN

Really? 

$60,000 orgasms 

Well, it does tend to take your mind off other things... 

 After Affirmative Action, Meritocracy?

What is merit? 

WSJ: Is Religion Good for Your Health? Studying the health benefits of religious activity involves special challenges, and researchers are developing new methods to meet them

Not what it's for 

 Is Remote Work Really the Future? Workers may be heading back to the office for five days a week sooner than they think.

 Is Remote Work Here to Stay?

You May Not Need an Electric Vehicle After All

 Liberals Try to Undermine Tucker Carlson's First Successful Twitter Show, But It Backfires

Why the hate? I don't know his politics, but he is entertaining and clever

 Trump Attorney Alina Habba Reacts to Indictment: “It’s Just Another Normal Day in Trump World..."

It is obviously political lawfare. 

 The Leftist Knives Are Already Coming Out for Potential Democrat Spoiler Cornel West

That's racist 

 California Takes a Big Step Towards Legalizing Shoplifting

 Armed employee shoots woman who was pistol-whipping coworker

  San Francisco Police Record Viral Video Saluting the Pride Flag

 Why Are So Many Younger Americans Okay with Big Brother Monitoring Their Homes?

Sanctuary Cities Seethe as Illegal Immigrants Actually Arrive 

 MOMS FOR HATE?

 Kids subjected to bizarre nude performance at 'all ages' Oregon State drag event. The event included a demonstration of 't*tty weight lifting.'

 Leftist Agitators Attack Armenian Parents Protesting “LGBTQ+” Activities in Glendale, CA Schools

CNN:  LGBTQ Americans are in a state of emergency

 Professor labels Target boycotters ‘domestic terrorists’

 STATE DEPT PUSHES LGBTQ ‘PRIDE’ EVERYWHERE EXCEPT MUSLIM WORLD

 Maryland Democrat Says Muslim Families Sided with ‘White Supremacists’ for Flagging Sexual Material in Class

 A Church Grows in Brooklyn - People say immigrants like my parents do the jobs native-born Americans don’t want to do. Keeping the faith is one of them.

 Mayor: Why should my town bail out failure of Dems on illegal migrants?

Academic journal editor faces cancel attempt for allowing debate on transgenderism 

Ukraine:  How Does This End Well?

I could do it 

What caused Canada's wildfires? Huge blazes that engulfed the US East Coast in smoke were sparked by 'bad forest management' as woodlands are left to turn into tinderboxes... 

I doubt that. Forest fires are natural. Should make great habitat for Ruffed Grouse in a year. 

 US Has 12 Or More Alien Spacecraft, Say Military And Intelligence Contractors

Prove it 

 Microaggressions

 Lululemon Fires Employee For Not Offering To Help Looters Bag Clothes And Load Them Into Their Car

 High Hopes, Deep Despair - San Francisco will break your heart.

WSJ:  The Truth About ‘Puberty Blockers’ - The FDA hasn’t approved them for gender dysphoria, and their effects are serious and permanent.

 Who’s Up For Greening The Health System?

 The Federal War Against Your Lifestyle

 The Religion of the Left - Sacred destruction and the search for lost gods.

 Taylor Lorenz slams Tucker Carlson’s first Twitter segment and couldn’t be more WILDLY wrong

Why do I care what she says? 

 ‘Most Damning’ About FBI: New Twitter Files Expose FBI-Ukraine Plot to Censor Users

Liars 

 INSIDE THE MELTDOWN AT CNN - CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?

 Now that the election season is gearing up, the smear merchants on the left will be flooding the airways with denunciations of Republicans as Nazis. 

 NYC landmarks are blanketed in smoke pouring across the Northeast from Canadian wildfires sparking 'code red' warning for residents with breathing issues... and it could be WORSE tomorrow

Purple haze. It's blocking out the sunshine, and causing itchy eyes 

 When Not to Treat Cancer - Taking a rational and statistical approach to a diagnosis can lead to better choices about treatment—which in some cases might mean not treating cancer at all.

 Southern Poverty Law Center Adds Parental Rights Groups to ‘Hate Map’

 When and How to Respond to Microaggressions

 Judge Says ‘GenderIdentity Is Real,’ Blocks Florida Law Banning Minors’ Transitions

 NYT goes after ethanol

 Irish Farmers Raise Alarm Over Government's Proposal To Kill Off 200,000 Cows

 Potential For Catastrophic US Electric Grid Failures This Summer A Reality - A reliability assessment of the nation’s electrical grid shows increasing potential for blackouts during heat waves. Coal-fired power plants, the report states, are being retired before enough new generation sources are being put on the grid. 

 Divesting from Big Oil Is an Empty Gesture. California lawmakers want the state’s public pensions to get rid of fossil fuel stocks, claiming that will help save the planet. Who are they trying to kid?

Two of San Fran's largest hotels are bailing out

 Target has been funding woke group that wants to close 'symbol of white supremacy' Mount Rushmore, demilitarize the US military and impose sanctions on Israel

 Killer MS-13 gangsters are being bused into our communities as ‘minors’

 Karine Jean-Pierre mocked for complaining migrant bussing puts strain on cities: 'Weapons-grade hypocrisy'

Patrick Deneen on Regime Change for America

It's a good essay. 

 June 6, 1944, D-Day: The Day That Saved The World

 Mike Rowe Is on a Mission to Reverse the ‘Unspeakable Stupidity’ of Devaluing Work

 What You Should Follow Instead of Your Passion

It depends... 

Why Is Corporate America Destroying Itself?

Theory is that they are doing their masters' bidding (mutual funds) 

 Gender madness in IDAHO

 Lawsuit: Academia’s DEI Hiring Statements are “Modern-Day Loyalty Oaths”

 Bill to Stop Employees Confronting Shoplifters Passed by California Senate

 MAYOR ADAMS HAS A GOOD IDEA

 Will You Take $100 Bucks a Day to House an Illegal Migrant? What happens when he refuses to leave?

 The Liberal Ladies of The View Send in White Crew Member to Shut Down Tim Scott During their Discussion on Race

 The Revelations Of Government Censorship Keep Coming In Missouri v. Biden

 Nearly 30% of people under 30 support government surveillance cameras in every home

 The totalitarian roots of the anti-human environmentalist cult