Sunday, March 19. 2023
Spectator:
Fortunately, there is a straightforward way to stop this mischief, at least in law schools, and to underscore the importance of free speech on campus. If students are found to have disrupted a speaker (after a fair hearing, in which they can defend themselves), they should face a simple penalty: disclosure.
Why do they behave like chidren?
Thursday, March 16. 2023
 Eagle pizza delivery
Wellesley College Students Vote to Admit Trans Men and Nonbinary Applicants
Climate Crisis? What Climate Crisis?
Arkansas makes it easier for teens to work. Heads explode
Joe Biden Claims a Child Wrote to Him About the ‘Gender Wage Gap'
Wednesday, March 15. 2023
Monday, March 13. 2023
He offers a summary of his career. One quote:
My most widely-read book, The Three Languages of Politics, mentions McRaney, as well as Haidt. It gives a simple model of conservatism, progressivism, and libertarianism. One emphasizes civilization vs. barbarism, the second emphasizes oppressed vs. oppressors, and the third emphasizes liberty vs. state coercion. These are not grand political philosophies, but they indicate the type of language that each tribe is drawn to. These languages serve as war whoops to denounce other tribes.
Friday, March 10. 2023
An author sent me this note received from the CEO of the (US) Author's Guild:
Dear all,
I am disheartened and deeply troubled by the insensitivities and refusal to listen that I saw in some of the comments that were posted in the thread titled "When is discrimination against authors by race not discrimination by authors about race?"
This forum is open to all members, and all need to feel welcome and respected. Going forward, posts that are insensitive to the historical and current hardships experienced by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ authors will be removed under our current terms of service: (https://authorsguild.org/terms-of-use/), and the person posting it will receive a strike.
A reminder that the AG Council adopted a resolution to try to address the imbalances and lack of equity in publishing, and that it is current AG policy to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, both internally and in the organizations' respective programmatic work.
See https://authorsguild.org/about/principles/our-commitment-to-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility/
The Guild will offer DEIA training to all members, and I encourage all to take it, especially if you are not familiar with the inequality and bias that BIPOC authors continue to experience today. You might find it mind-opening. We like to believe that we live in a country where all are treated equally and have equal opportunity, but we are still so far from that ideal. As writers, you have the power to change minds and so to change the world for the better. I behoove you to use your gifts to help lift us reach the American ideal of equality.
Authors today have so many challenges in front of us. We must support one another and unite to face them. Intentional divisiveness has no place in the AG, and should not be tolerated.
Thank you,
Mary Rasenberger, CEO
Thursday, March 9. 2023
Revenge of the Patriarchy: White House Gives Women’s Day Award to a Dude in a Dress
Very advanced
A glimmer of hope for free speech at Yale Law School
Harvard students demand Winthrop House be renamed, call name ‘harmful’
What?
Critical race theory is teaching kids to hate each other
Stop Lying To People. They're Not Perfect Just As They Are
As my wife frequently reminds me
The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills - Fatherless children are at higher risk of delinquency that undermines their own prospects and disrupts the communities in which they reside.
Correlation is not causation
Feeling good about your fat bod is reserved for Black women
‘Indigenous Studies’ lecturer denies historical brutality of Native American tribes, blames ‘white people’
DeSantis is simply avoiding the backbiting of the national media who have made it their goal to destroy him by lying about him.
DeSantis is Hitler + Stalin + Pol Pot. Trump is just Hitler.
Friday, March 3. 2023
After adjusting for biases in BMI, a study found people carrying excess weight had far worse mortality outcomes than previously known.
Even The Nation: Let Kids Read Roald Dahl’s Books the Way He Wrote Them. The beloved author’s books are being edited by their publisher to suit contemporary sensibilities. That robs us of the author’s vision—and any sense of history.
CUNY announced in a January press release that it completed its elimination of “outdated traditional remedial math and English courses” and is replacing them with “more equitable ‘corerequisite’ courses,” or for-credit classes that provide the foundational skills that students should have obtained in high school.
PBS Denounces Monopoly and Capitalism
Is Poker ok?
TGIF: Crime & Punishment - Murdaugh’s a murderer. Lightfoot’s a loser. Ghislaine goes hungry. Plus, the latest scary TikTok trend.
SCAM OF THE CENTURY? Canada's Trans Teacher with the Enormous Fake Boobs Put on Paid Leave
Guy has a good sense of fun
UNITED AIRLINES TOUTS ALL-LGBTQ FLIGHT CREW; CUSTOMERS NOT AMUSED
Trent College Minister Fired as Threat to Students After Criticizing LGBTQ Values
Exercise More Effective Than Counseling or Medication for Depression
That is overstatement
Several months into “15 days to flatten the curve,” actual experts, like the Great Barrington Declaration scientists, began screaming from the rooftops about natural immunity. They argued — correctly, as it turns out — that we should protect the vulnerable while allowing those not at risk to go about their lives, get COVID and acquire immunity.
It would be very hard for Chicago’s next Mayor to be worse than Lightfoot.
NBC Reporter Goes To Crimea, Shocks Viewers By Telling The Truth
NY Times on rising illegal immigration... in Canada
Sorry Russia and Ukraine, China Would Like Its Stuff Now
Biden Admin Upset Over You Pesky Citizens Losing Faith In Arming Ukraine
Citizens are so annoying to governments
The Rise of the Right-Wing Peacenik - ‘I realized that my own side was led by a bunch of incompetents and ideologues who had taken our country down a path of destruction. And for what?’
Tuesday, February 28. 2023
Monday, February 27. 2023
Saturday, February 25. 2023
Whale deaths and windfarms
The question is whether the sonar ships used to build the windmills are blinding sea mammals' sonar
Exercise and depression
WSJ: Why We Should Keep Reading Freud - Today’s psychologists find him embarrassing, but the founder of psychoanalysis had powerful insights into the way our minds work.
'Health at Every Size' Group Razes the 'Racism and Healthism' of Physicians Fighting Obesity
Pediatric cancer fundraiser not diverse enough, Penn State students say
Spectator: Are the adults back in charge at the New York Times? Newsroom leadership chastised staff for aligning with activist groups
Microaggressions can "kill you," criminalize speech against "oppressed groups"
Major Association Of US Doctors Makes Official Statement On Transgender Procedures For Minors
DeSantis worse than murderer
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