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MANNING THE BARRICADES IS FOR THE PLEBES, NOT ELITE JOURNOS:
PUTIN LOOKS TERRIBLE IN THIS PICTURE, ALMOST LIKE HE’S STARTED TO DRINK LIKE A RUSSIAN: Putin says Russia dealing better with virus than US. But sure, whatever you say, Vladimir.
STELTER LASHES OUT, TELLS TRUMP LAWYER HER KIDS/GRANDKIDS WILL BE ASHAMED OF HER:
STELTER: You understand that like someday you’re going to regret this, right?
[JENNA] ELLIS: — you for the last three and a half years —
STELTER: Someday you’re going to regret this when your kids –
ELLIS: No, I’m standing up for truth.
STELTER: — and grandkids look back at this and you use slurs and smears —
ELLIS: Oh, now you’re going to the personal attacks.
STELTER: — like fake news to hurt news outlets.
“Oh, now you’re going to the personal attacks. That’s when you know you lost the debate, Brian,” she shot back. “You’re not a journalist, Brian. You’re an activist. That’s the problem. You have an agenda, and your agenda is anti-Trump,” she accurately pointed out.
Unfazed, Stelter continued to talk down to her. “I think in 10 or 20 years if we just sit down and talk about this, you’ll recognize how damaging it was. How damaging it was to use terms like fake news, to attack journalists who are trying to do their jobs,” he lectured.
Well yes, Stelter is indeed a Democratic Party activist with a byline. But as the Daily Caller noted in 2016, “Dem Party Platform Calls For Prosecuting Global Warming Skeptics.” And this looks like awfully skeptical behavior from someone whose network concurrently had CNN scheduled a seven hour climate town hall for 2020 Dem candidates:
If Stelter believes his own rhetoric, someday he and kids will regret all of his binge travel.
ROGER KIMBALL: An Overdraft on White Guilt Will Lead to a Landslide in November.
But what if it doesn’t? Then expect: The coming political whiplash. “A Trump trouncing in 2020 would enable the GOP to coalesce around a less flamboyantly terrible model of leadership for the future of the party and the country. Tom Cotton, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence, Marco Rubio, Tucker Carlson — any of these and possibly many other potential presidential candidates would be nicely set up by a Trump defeat for a strong run in 2024. But that scenario will not only be rendered more likely by Trump getting booted from the White House in November. It will also be advanced by the left overplaying its cards.”
IN 1919, THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES MOCKED HIM FOR THINKING A ROCKET COULD WORK IN OUTER SPACE: On This Day in Space! June 14, 1914: Robert Goddard snags patent for liquid-fueled rocket.
FRANCE IS ONCE AGAIN PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939: French Anti-Racism Protesters Scream ‘Dirty Jews’ At Counter-Protesters. “Ariel Sharon Was Right In 2004 When He Told Jews To Leave France.”
Putting aside his crazy noodle habit, this is the hero America needs pic.twitter.com/ciYtEM1LOe
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) June 14, 2020
As Kevin Williamson wrote in his 2019 book, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics, “The Bill of Rights ought to be titled ‘A List of Things You Idiots Don’t Get a Vote On, Because They Aren’t Up for Negotiation.’”
LOOK WHO’S PUTTING THE SYSTEM IN “SYSTEMIC RACISM.”
BETTER CALL SAUL: Ahead Of Monday’s DC Police Budget Hearing, A Large Crowd Takes To Mayor Bowser’s House To Protest.
While large swaths of downtown D.C. were closed to vehicular traffic and largely free of the big protests the city has seen over the last two weeks, a livelier scene was to be found on the small residential street in front of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s house on Saturday evening.
That’s where a group of at least 200 people gathered for a protest-turned-party, calling on Bowser to decriminalize sex work and defund the Metropolitan Police Department. They danced in the streets and sashayed along line of police officers standing in front of Bowser’s house, calling out for justice they say they’ve been denied.
“I want her to give a fuck,” said Pontianna Ivan, a trans women, of Bowser. “There’s a lot of things going on and the way she’s going on about things, it’s not showing us that she cares. Our lives matter. Show us our lives matter.”
Protesting at an official’s house is straight out of Saul Alinsky’s playbook. As I wrote in 2013, when anti-war protestors appeared on the doorstep of John and Theresa Kerry’s Beacon Hill townhouse, I wonder if Alinsky’s heirs ever thought the old man’s techniques would boomerang against them?
WHAT WE’RE LEARNING about online learning. “What we’re finding in the research thus far is it’s generally harder to keep students engaged with virtual lessons.”
NEVER GIVE AN ORDER THAT WON’T BE OBEYED: Gov. Cuomo threatens to ‘reverse’ reopening in Manhattan, Hamptons amid rampant social-distancing violations.
How’s it going over? A New Yorker friend comments: “The thousands of people currently marching up 1st avenue aren’t a threat, but a dozen people enjoying a drink are. Got it, you petty little asshole.”
Related: Andrew Cuomo’s Deadly Failures. “The major story of the coronavirus epidemic in New York is how the governor’s policies toward long-term care facilities enabled the virus to run rampant among our most vulnerable population.”
HAPPY FLAG DAY! Today in 1943, the Supreme Court decided West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, which included this famous passage:
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
Words to remember, especially in these times.
BRENDAN O’NEILL ON J.K. ROWLING ON FACEBOOK:
I disagree with JK Rowling on a lot. I have never read a single word of a Harry Potter book. But seriously, every institution in the UK could learn something from her refusal to capitulate to the fuming mob who have spent weeks abusing and insulting her and trying to get her cancelled simply because she believes there is such a thing as biological reality. In their tens of thousands people have lined up to denounce her, to call her “pure scum”, to tell her to shut the f**k up. Including the three actors who became famous on the back of the Harry Potter stories — the celeb equivalent of children denouncing their parents in Stalinist Russia. She knows there will be protests if she speaks in public again, she knows some millennials are burning her books, she knows she will be defamed and boycotted for years. And yet she is sticking to her guns. That is so unusual in these yellow-bellied times.
Imagine if every university, corporation, media channel, streaming service, local council and politician did likewise every time noisy agitators called on them to ban something or apologise for something or to sack people for wrongthink. Britain would be a very different, and far better, place.
True.
WELL, THAT MAKES SENSE: Older, more anxious people likely to stockpile toilet paper during pandemic.
RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE: When Silicon Valley Goes Dark This Time, There Will Be No Refuge.
Blackouts that hit millions of Californians in 2019 could be doubly calamitous this year with tech giants Google, Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. among the many companies keeping offices closed until the fall or later in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic.
If utilities cut power again, home offices set up during the pandemic could go dark and stay dark for days, and they’ll have no corporate offices to flee to for power. In October 2019, more than 3 million people were affected by a series of rolling blackouts over more than a week as PG&E Corp. and Edison International tried to prevent live wires from sparking wildfires.
Call it a collision of crises. Blackouts could limit California’s push to revive an economy largely paralyzed by stay-at-home orders this spring. The state, utilities and individual companies are all seeking ways to deal with blackouts before a wildfire season forecast to be worse than normal. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., for one, has “long contemplated this type of scenario,” according to spokesman Adam Bauer. . . .
“We’re going to have people sheltered in place and without power,” said Carl Guardino, chief executive officer of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group lobbying organization, which represents many of the region’s biggest companies.
Guardino’s own home lost electricity for 5 days last year, he said. He ended up moving his family into a hotel. he said. Now, though, even that solution is unlikely given the coronavirus shutdowns.
To be sure, many Californians have already turned to back-up power generators. Generac Holdings Inc. saw its sales in the state surge 300%, its chief executive officer told Bloomberg a month after the blackouts. And this spring, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group successfully lobbied state officials to let solar installers return to work months before many other businesses opened. . . .
The utilities, whose use of intentional blackouts last year provoked fierce criticism, are aware of the issue. But they don’t want the number of people working from home to affect their decision to shut off power, if weather conditions demand it.
Goody.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Protesters demand removal of Mahatma Gandhi statue in England.
JUST TELL THEM THAT IT’S OKAY BECAUSE LEFTISM IS A MORE DEADLY PANDEMIC THAN CORONAVIRUS AND WE NEED THIS TO COUNTER IT: Health experts warn of coronavirus risks at Trump’s upcoming rally.
It’s even true. Related:
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 7 Personal-Defense Handguns Under $300. I’ve been slowly auditioning carry guns out at the range — which is partly just an excuse to shoot a lot of different new guns — but I’m wondering if the way things are going I shouldn’t just open-carry a full-sized handgun. Or two.
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH BEDFORD-STUYVESANT: Spike Lee Cancels Himself: 24 Hours after Defending Woody Allen From Being Cancelled, Spike Lee Cancels His Previous Remarks.
MORE NEWS FROM BEVERLY HILLS: Beverly Hills Imposes Emergency Order Limiting Gatherings ‘To Preserve The Peace And Tranquility Of Residential Areas.’
RAYSHARD BROOKS AND DEADLY FORCE: “Let us stipulate here that drunk-driving Rayshard Brooks would be alive today if he had complied with the lawful orders of police, who treated him with courtesy. Let us stipulate that Rayshard Brooks would be alive today if he had not stolen a police taser and fired it at cops. Let us also stipulate that burning down a Wendy’s, as the Atlanta mob did, is not a reasonable response to a police-involved shooting that takes place in its parking lot. Now, watch that video and put yourself in Officer Rolfe’s shoes. Could you make the call not to shoot, in a split second, under taser fire from a violent fleeing suspect?”
Related: “Look at this white girl burning down the Wendy’s. This wasn’t us!” – video from Atlanta.
VIOLENT PROTESTS — THE BACKLASH IS COMING:
There are probably quite a few Americans outraged by the sights of statues of Christopher Columbus or other figures from history being beheaded or pulled down, or the defacing of statutes of abolitionists in the name of racial equality. Whatever you think of Christopher Columbus or any other historical figure, we have a legal and democratic process to remove statues from public squares when a sufficient portion of the public deems them no longer acceptable. These communities have zoning boards and local elected officials who can make those choices and be held accountable to the public through elections. Nobody elected those angry mobs to a damn thing. This is rule by force, the strongest forcing their will upon those who are weaker than them. This will not end well for anyone.
There will be a backlash to these actions, but not in the form of the “white people’s riot” that In Living Color imagined. That backlash may come at the ballot box, or it may come in some other indirect form. Some people aren’t interested in direct confrontation in the streets. They may simply prefer to express their opposition in a way that these protesters expect it least — businesses moving out, reluctance to hire, reluctance to visit a neighborhood, effectively abandoning a community. Not every wall that is built is physical and visible. But one way or another, the reaction is coming.
Read the whole thing.
Oh, and speaking of businesses moving out:
Related: Truck Drivers Might Refuse to Deliver to Cities With Defunded Police.
Earlier: American Cities Take Double-Barreled Hit; How Will They Look in the Future?
IT’S OK EVERYONE, ACTORS ARE ‘TAKING RESPONSIBILITY:’
We must all be grateful to these very rich, very famous people for making this bold and controversial statement against racism. Who else, after all, will stand up to the very powerful and well-funded shopping-in a-store-absolutely-should-be-a-death-sentence lobby?
It’s also good to see that the acting community has recovered from Ricky Gervais’s cruel attack on their noble efforts to heal humanity at the Golden Globes earlier this year. Nothing and nobody can stop luvvies from using their position to educate others. Because if actors don’t save the world, who will?
We can’t stop them from making these leftist celebrity drone-a-thons. But could they at least experiment with the structure a bit?
Time for a flashback! We thought the latest viral, celebrity PSA sounded familiar. This video created by Townhall Media in 2017, starring Townhall’s Katie Pavlich and Guy Benson, The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, and former members of the Townhall Media family Mary Katherine Ham and S. E. Cupp, mocks the boring and predictable political videos from elitist Hollywood liberals.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
THOSE WHO CANNOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO QUOTE SANTAYANA: CHAZ Is Like the Paris Commune, But With Less Voting and More Privilege.
LEBANON AND SYRIA LURCH TOWARD IMPLOSION.
Nonsense – just send in Antifa to open up a few autonomous zones in the cities, and it will immediately be the “Summer of Love” in the Middle East.
CRITIQUING THE RACE HUSTLERS: A History Professor’s Anonymous Letter to His Woke Colleagues at Berkeley. He identifies himself as African-American but says that he must remain anonymous because his career would otherwise be doomed by his heretical thoughts on racism, George Floyd, and Black Lives Matter. Read the whole thing.
JUST A SUBSIDY FOR DIVERSITY CONSULTANTS: Kentucky proposes ‘implicit bias’ training for all teachers, staff.
Also, “implicit bias” is mostly junk science.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE. Dire Social Justice Repercussions: ESPN Viewership Sinks To 41-Year Lows.
HIGHER EDUCATION’S CLOWN SHOW CONTINUES: Students removed ‘racist’ Catholic student gov. president, but replacement turns out to be ‘antisemitic.’
THE ADVANTAGE OF STRONG COMMUNITY TIES: Residents in the Bronx’s Little Italy rally for looted pizza owner.
Like many other small businesses during COVID-19, Joe’s Little Italy on East 187th St. has been working hard to stay afloat. However, after recently being looted last week, the Bronx community is rallying together to help the eatery “pick up the pizzas” with the hopes to help keep the business alive.
On June 1, everything changed when criminals smashed the glass and stole money from the pizzeria. Owner Chris Castelan, 50, lives above the store with his family and told the Bronx Times he heard the alarm at 1 a.m. and feared the worst.
“They destroyed everything,” he said. “I just can’t believe it. What’s most important is we are okay.” . . .
Castelan first migrated from Mexico 40 years ago and started working for Joe’s Pizza in Belmont when he first came to America.
After learning the craft of the business, he invested his entire life savings and purchased the pizzeria from the original owners. The new opening was tough however, since construction was delayed over nine months, forcing him to take on odd jobs until the reopening.
He had to sell his home and eventually rented an apartment above the shop to stay close by. When the shop finally reopened in November 2019, Castelan opted not to install metal gates on the storefront, since he wanted his customers to feel welcome to an open and neighborhood store that he was proud to have created.
He has a GoFundMe page. I donated.
RIOTERS IN RICH DEMOCRATS’ NEIGHBORHOODS? IS THAT ALLOWED? Beverly Hills Police Deployed Tear Gas as Protesters Gathered Friday Night. “Police officers with the Beverly Hills Police Department used tear gas and sponge-tipped grenades on protesters at around 11 p.m. on Friday night. The group of roughly 50, which identified itself as Occupy BLM, made its way down Santa Monica Boulevard before turning onto a residential street, where police formed a skirmish line and declared an unlawful assembly. . . . In a statement, BHPD said that protesters trespassed on private property, threw objects at officers, and pointed a laser at officers.” But no one was arrested.
2020: THE YEAR GUN CONTROL DIED. Gun opponents would leave predatory cops armed and their victims helpless.
QUESTION ASKED AND (POSSIBLY) ANSWERED: “[H]ow much of the response to the public killing of one George Floyd has been an engineered operation by the Democratic Party and its allies in the propaganda industry? I’d say, an awful lot, considering the presentation of events in The New York Times and other organs of the perpetual Resistance that have been luxuriating in existential woe surrounding the indecencies of whiteness, culminating in the fake abject ritual of contrition put on by Ms. Pelosi and Chuck Schumer taking-a-knee in their Kente cloth prayer shawls. Within a few more days, at least four cops around the country were ambushed and shot in the head, but there were no public displays of mourning for them.”
(Via Power Line.)
WHEN YOU’VE LOST AN EDITOR OF ROLLING STONE. Matt Taibbi: The American Press Is Destroying Itself.
“It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind. It’s become a cowardly mob of upper-class social media addicts, Twitter Robespierres who move from discipline to discipline torching reputations and jobs with breathtaking casualness. The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation. They are counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily.”
At Townhall, Matt Vespa writes, “But if you shame, deplatform, and purge those liberals who haven’t gone totally insane from your ranks, I could see how abolishing the police could seem like a possibility if you’re a lefty loon. The media appears to be a place where there can be no debate, where its writers work in fear, and the political correctness enforcers acting like ISIS’ religious police watch their every move. Yeah, I can see why that’s causing the liberal media to self-destruct. Submit or die is the special of the day for the American Left. And that is why I’m proud not to be a liberal or a Democrat. Taibbi’s post is lengthy but worth a full read.”
Related: I Don’t Believe The Media. The radical revolution that has destroyed confidence in journalism.
More: Old and busted? The 1619 Project. The New Hotness? The 1793 Project:
Given that so many cancellations hinge on the accusation that safety is being undermined, I would suggest a different metaphor than Mao. Mine is no less hyperbolic, but it puts the focus where my reporting—and Haidt and Lukianoff’s research—suggest it should be. In 1793, the Committee of Public Safety took charge of the French Revolution on a promise to “make terror the order of the day.” Evidence-free show trials and ideological purges followed, consistent with the radical leaders’ belief that public safety requires public terror.
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Ironically, the same subset of people ostensibly exercised about emotional safety—the woke left—seem frequently inclined to level unsubstantiated accusations that inflict emotional harm. This makes it difficult to believe that these Twitter warriors’ true aim is the promotion of psychological comfort. Did any of them consider Uhlig’s mental health after the man was baselessly accused? Does anyone care about Roman, who probably did not expect her enemies to ransack her Myspace page for evidence of racism and then pillory her for a photo taken when she was 23? What about Shor, thrown to the wolves for making a reasonable objection to what one wing of the protesters was doing?
As Robby Soave of Reason concludes, “That sounds like terror, not safety. Call it the 1793 Project.”
IS CHAZ EVOLVING INTO PARADISE?: I’ll leave that for you to decide.
TRAYVON’S MOM, SYBRINA FULTON: ‘I Think We Need More Police.’
That sound you just heard was millions of liberal brains blowing a circuit breaker. Trayvon Martin is a secular saint, and you can’t question anything his family says or you’re a racist. And… his mom doesn’t want to #DefundThePolice.
Have fun soothing your cognitive dissonance, libs!
Here’s wishing Sybrina Fulton good luck in her political career. She suffered a terrible loss, but she hasn’t let it warp her view of the world to the point where she advocates chaos and anarchy. Right now, that’s refreshingly bold.
Read the whole thing.
THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING: Photos: Pandemic-Fatigued New Yorkers Crowd Outside Of Bars & Restaurants.
STANDING UP AGAINST BIGOTRY: Orthodox Jews Sue Cuomo And de Blasio Over ‘Blatant Double-Standard.’
WHY ARE OUR WOKE INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM AND MISOGYNY? A Racial Reckoning At Condé Nast.. “It’s so hard to be a person of color at this company.”
MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS: CHAZ Resident Says ‘White America’ Will ‘See More Burning’ and ‘Looting’ If They Don’t ‘Get It Right’ (Video). The CHAZ resident has been identified as a prominent member of Antifa by Andy Ngo.
ELITE STANDARDS: Caltech Announces Two-Year Moratorium on SAT and ACT Requirements.
SORRY CDC, NOBODY’S LISTENING ANYMORE: CDC says new lockdowns could be needed if coronavirus spikes, releases new guidelines for going out.
Related: Is Attending a Political Protest More Important than Attending a Funeral?
Also: Amid a ban on religious gatherings, Church of the Woke gets a dispensation.
June 13, 2020
WHEN THE DAWN PATROL GOT TO TELL YOU TWICE, THEY’RE GONNA DO IT WITH A SHOTGUN: Armed Neighborhood Groups Form In The Absence Of Police Protection. Remember, police aren’t there to protect residents from criminals. They’re there to protect criminals from residents. “Only people with guns are on the rooftop.”
Just remember, you can tell the racial makeup of the groups by the wording of the NPR headlines.
IT’S AS IF ALL THE TALK ABOUT ANTI-RACISM IS JUST A COVER FOR AN ELIMINATIONIST WAR ON AMERICA’S HISTORY: Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier Of The American Revolution Vandalized In Philadelphia’s Washington Square.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Suspect involved in Christopher Columbus vandalism is teacher at Pawtucket Public Schools. “Derrick Garforth, 34, was charged with desecration of grave/monument, which is a felony. . . . Derrick Garforth, 34, and Charlotte Whittingham, 28, were both arrested. Police said Mackenzie Innis, 26, who was driving the car the suspects were in, was arrested also.”
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Denver school board votes unanimously to remove police from public schools.
Hey, worries about school shootings are so 2016.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Parts of Beijing locked down due to fresh virus cluster. “Dozens of people tested positive for the coronavirus in Beijing as parts of the city were locked down Saturday after the emergence of a new cluster linked to a wholesale food market. . . . AFP reporters saw hundreds of police officers, many wearing masks and gloves, and dozens of paramilitary police deployed at the two markets, with no one allowed to leave Xinfadi.”
Reportedly, the market “provides much of the capital’s food supply.” That must be a gigantic market.
UNEXPECTEDLY:
● Fawlty Towers DVD Sales Soar After Woke Cancellation.
Earlier: Buy Physical Media.
UPDATE: The List of Movies and TV Blacklisted By the Woke Taliban… So Far.
I BLAME SOCIAL MEDIA: Young Adults Having Less Sex. “In 2018, 31 percent of men and 19 percent of women between ages 18 and 24 reported no sexual activity in the previous year, researchers said. In 2001, 19 percent of men and 15 percent of women in the same age group had no sexual activity during the previous year. In addition to the findings on young adults, the number of men 25 to 34 years old who reported sexual inactivity in the past year doubled to 14 percent in 2018 from 7 percent in 2000, researchers said. The percentage of women who reported sexual inactivity in this age group also rose — to 13 percent from 7 percent over the same period.”
For older adults the numbers are unchanged. No wonder millennials are so kooky and grumpy. They’re not getting enough.
MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING AUTONOMOUS ZONE. ‘So it’s a socialist Renaissance fair:’ Julio Rosas finds CHAZ medic dressed in Medieval armor.
When does Sheldon appear at the CHAZ wearing Spock ears and carrying a tricorder?
OHIO IS CONSIDERING A “STAND YOUR GROUND” LAW: I am pretty sure this Commissioner Statement will clear up some of the misconceptions that Buckeye State legislators are hearing.
WELL, THIS IS PROMISING: Most asymptomatic COVID-19 cases stay that way, small study says. “Are many of these ‘asymptomatic’ carriers simply in a stage of infection that later moves on to symptomatic COVID-19? No, suggests a small, new study of cruise ship passengers and crew.”
JUST DON’T MENTION THE CULTURE WAR: Fawlty Towers’ “The Germans” episode to be reinstated by UKTV.
Oceania has never been at war with Basil Fawlty.
Earlier: John Cleese Slams Removal of Fawlty Towers Episode From Streaming Site.
And from Steve: Cancel Culture Comes for John Cleese and ‘Fawlty Towers.’
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BUT WHO WILL PROTECT YOKO’S AIR-CONDITIONED FUR COAT STORAGE ROOM IN THE DAKOTA? Welcome To Reality As A Beatles Song: Imagine A World Without Police.
HANNAH COX: Why I regret my teenage crush on Elliot Stabler. She’s right that for millions of viewers, these TV portrayals are as close as they’ll ever come to the justice system.
But what’s wrong with being “hypermasculine?”
BORIS JOHNSON SAYS ATTACKING STATUES IS ‘LYING ABOUT OUR HISTORY.’
As they say on Airstrip One, “Who Controls the Past Controls the Future.”
FUNNY HOW THOSE ERRORS ARE ALWAYS AIMED AT ONE SIDE OF THE AISLE: Twitter Reinstates Zerohedge After Admitting It Made An “Error.”
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON On Name Changing and Statue Toppling:
General David Petraeus wrote an impassioned article in the Atlantic this week about the need to change the names of military bases that for over a century have been named after Confederate generals and to recalibrate iconic remembrances such as statues commemorating Robert E. Lee at West Point — points of reference he reminds us that have been central in his own experience and career.
His relevant points were twofold and ostensibly rational: Commanders such as Bragg and Benning (Petraeus proposes the renaming of other eponymous bases as well) were not especially effective commanders worthy of such majestic base commemoration. In some cases, as Petraeus notes, they were not even highly regarded by their peers. No one, certainly, would wish to defend the worldview of a Braxton Bragg. And, as Petraeus put it, as “traitors” they fought for an ignoble cause that perpetuated slavery. (Of course, the logic of renaming should then apply to the northern California community of Fort Bragg, also named after the unattractive Braxton Bragg — an idea to which some in the Democratic California legislature failed to win over the town’s mayor in 2015).
Read the whole thing.
COMING SOON, A Real Estate Tax Revenue Death Spiral?
Who would have thought that Minneapolis might become the next Detroit? Well, some of the people who are making it happen, maybe.
IN MY EXPERIENCE, WHICH IS EXTENSIVE, GOOD ERGONOMICS MATTERS, BUT CHANGING YOUR POSITION FREQUENTLY MATTERS MORE. Working from home can ravage your spine, but good posture can help fix it.
TO BE HONEST, THIS DOES KIND OF MAKE SENSE: Alternate reading of Mayan calendar suggests end of the world is next week.
DISPATCHES FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT” PARTY: Seattle’s CHAZ Is Everything Its ‘Woke’ Organizers Said They Were Against.
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