NYT: Colleges have gone off the deep end.
NYT: Colleges have gone off the deep end.
David French explains where the college protestors have gone wrong. I don’t recall seeing any push-back during the Occupy Wall Street or BLM actions.
Category: Culture (Page 15 of 22)
Politico: Far Right wants more babies.
Real Clear Politics: Have more babies.
Based on recent articles, we are supposed to worry about not having enough babies and people who worry about not having enough babies.
Back in the 1980’s, before we were afraid all the time, I supported several environmental groups. Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund and a few others. Never Greenpeace, they were already crazy. World population was an issue of interest, so I supported a group called Negative Population Growth.
They were completely reasonable, but in retrospect, I can see how they could go off-the-rails in a catastrophic way.
By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”
Nope. No sale, sister.
It’s not because my winsome dog Sparky has turned me into a bleeding heart.
I understand that some dogs are vicious. Some dogs have to be put down, and as a practical matter, in a rural setting, the owner does the wet work.
Several aspects of Kristi Noem’s account are disturbing.
As a rising star in conservative circles, she decided to put this account in her book. Why? She is trying to send a message that she thinks will be appealing to voters.
Noem “hated that dog”. That is an emotional response that shouldn’t be used to justify a killing. If the dog had to be put-down, it should be related in a clinical and detached manner.
The dog was 14 months old. Puppy brain lingers until a dog is a few years old. It may be routine to start training a dog for hunting at such a young age, but many dogs must fail that test. If that proves the dog will be untrainable for hunting, surely the dog retains some value. Give the dog away or keep it as a pet.
I am not squeamish or opposed to killing animals.
I use traditional mouse traps. I don’t celebrate a mouse with a snapped neck or brag about my trapping prowess. Mice are free to live in the wood pile or make a nest in the woods. A mouse invading my home has crossed the line and forfeited the right to live unchallenged.
Deer hunting is a subject about which I’ve posted. Deer in our area live a blessed life. They have no predators and freely roam, devouring our landscaping. I have passed on many deer that were too small or presented only a marginal target. I only take a clean shot and eat what I kill. It is exciting to shoot a deer, but it’s adrenaline, not blood lust. I don’t mount the heads, but do have an antler mount. I’m not nuts about those photos that hunters take with the deer’s tongue hanging out and the visible blood.
Noem demonstrates bad judgment for not realizing that her story is appalling and for the actions she took with regard to the puppy.
I wish to protest the current ugliness. I see it as a continuing trend, “the uglification of everything.” It is coming out of our culture with picked-up speed, and from many media silos, and I don’t like it.
Peggy Noonan recognizes a trend that has been going on for many years. We see it in movies and TV all the time. Hollywood seems to be embarrassed by feminine beauty. Noonan sees a broader trend. I have many examples, but let’s start with Noonan’s.
Fox News: Ohio Lawmakers like Pete Rose
This is embarrassing. Ohio lawmakers should have something more productive to do than mettle in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Boston Herald: Pro-Palestinian Protestors
So we are back to this. City and university administration doing as little as possible to maintain order.
These Emerson students should be back on campus, trying to figure out their sexuality. That’s become too political, so they dress in their best grunge outfits and protest for something they don’t understand.
Emerson’s new president, Jay Bernhardt, wrote yesterday that the college supports “our community’s right to express their views through protest. However, they must do so in a manner consistent with the laws of the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”
At least administrators and city officials are saying the right things, but they won’t follow through.
A court official released the students on a “promise to return” on their scheduled dates.
Really? A better response would be to charge them with three or four misdemeanors and set bail at a couple of thousand dollars. Tuition at Emerson is $54k. They can afford it.
An Instagram post just before the arrests show a man with a bullhorn instructing the students on how to “form ranks 4 lines thick” and “resist police,” the post states.
It would also be a good idea to find out who that man is, who trained him and who is funding this disruption. Where did the tents come from? None of those chubby rascals look like they spend many weekends hiking around Acadia National Park.
Another solution would be to leave the police out of it and let the townies clear out the malcontents
White House: Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility
On Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our Nation’s commitment to forming a more perfect Union — where all people are created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.
This doesn’t make sense. It seems like transgender folks would have a Transgender Day of Invisibility. If a person’s objective is to be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, the intent should be to commit to the role and convincingly deceive the casual observer.
LA Times: Three things might help Biden
The answers fall into three broad categories: Over the next seven months, voters could begin feeling better about the country; a larger share of them could begin to warm to Biden; or the president could win votes from people who disapprove of him.
Compared to the last Trump v. Biden election, Biden doesn’t have much help. Last time, the broad categories of game-changers was more impressive.
Prestigious news organizations like NPR and NYT intentionally suppressed news coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop. They surrendered all of their integrity, but the people on top will land on their feet.
The Obama administration recruited foreign and domestic spy agencies to assist in investigating and impugning a candidate for president of the United States.
Social media companies complied with directives from the federal government to censor and manipulate free speech on their platforms.
With Biden’s frailty and unpopularity, we expect the DNC to pull a rabbit out of it’s hat. It won’t have to be a much of a rabbit, and nobody will ever see the hat, but corporate media will paper over any issues.
When did Bruce Springsteen turn into an albino?
NYT: What’s the matter with Ohio?
These East coast elitist dickheads can’t be very bright because they keep trying to win us over with these articles about why we are so dim.
If you aren’t familiar with him, Paul Krugman is the George Costanza of Nobel prize winning economists. Krugman could take the opinion that was the exact opposite of everything he thinks, and he would be more correct and respected.
For many years, Ohio has been thought of as a bellwether state: With rare exceptions, whoever won Ohio in a presidential election won the nation as a whole. But in 2020, Donald Trump won Ohio by about eight points even as Joe Biden led the national popular vote by more than four points and, of course, won the Electoral College vote.