Not actually us.
So a four day weekend is a perfect time to get a few house chores done. Weeding, painting, patching, toilet repair… and guess who’s helping me do all this? Visitors here will remember the horrible Pepto Bismol-colored TV room; that’s the first one to get a makeover. The home renovation was supposed to be a team project but, well, we know how that went. So I have nothing but admiration and gratitude for NPR Lady who has remarked that SP was, “…a tough act to follow.” Yes, and she’s brave to even try.
And let’s try birthdays, including including the guy who inspired the song I’m Looking Through You; a guy whose magisterial work inspired my current project on making spherical retroreflectors; a great physicist who, with George Gamow and Ralph Alpher, was on the most delightful co-author list in the history of science; a great man who was a lousy justice; a terrific storyteller and prose stylist who was also half of the greatest writing duo in the history of science fiction; the woman who put Thom McCan on the map; a crappy politico who spawned even crappier politicos; a guy who may have been a wee bit too enthusiastic; an insanely wonderful singer/songwriter; and the center of the hot-crazy axis. Oh, and a special birthday callout to the one and only Warty.
Onward to Linkdom.
28 shot, 2 dead. SP would say, “Those boys need more range time.”
Geeky, but I love shit like this.
This is the new narrative. Of course the most important piece of data is never reported.
Look, I am strongly pro-immigration. I am convinced by Julian Simon’s arguments about human capital. But why is the any concern of the Mexican government? THEY LEFT.
If a country is non-assimilationist but takes in a lot of immigrants, hijinx ensue.
Old Guy Music should make you wait a cotten pickin’ minute. Just perfect in its simplicity and genuineness.
What about pistol training in prison?
That is why they built guard towers. So you can shoot down, as up changes the ballistics.
For GT:
“New Orleans had the highest homicide rate in the nation in 2022 with 74.3 homicides per 100,000 people. It was followed by St. Louis (68.2), Baltimore (58.1), Detroit (48.9) and Memphis (45.9), Wirepoints found.”
Chicago is around 26 or so.
Thanks! (Files away for reference when making travel plans.)
It’s also been run by Democrats since the 19th Century.
45.9
where’s the statistic for how many of them needed shooting?
All those damn Republican mayors and city councils.
“ What’s the shadowy cabal’s next goal? Take away your car, the Londoner says.
While there is no evidence such a plan exists”
Just ignore all the proclamations from the WEF and the multitude of climate action groups.
Makes you want to smack the person who wrote that.
Nope, not smack… punch. That face needs a punch.
https://www.nbcnews.com/author/patrick-smith-ncpn989401
Backpfeifengesicht – A face in need of a fist.
Oh hell.. I even refreshed at least once but for some reason didn’t see you were replying to that point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3SZ6k9RoR0
I’ve been saying this for months. And, yes, these plans exist. Strong Towns, Net Zero, Fifteen Minute Cities, etc. The visible faces of these groups are true believers, naive do-gooders, but scratch the surface and you’ll find people opposed to private car ownership, people who want to restrict your freedom of movement, etc. Remember: no such thing as unintended consequences.
“You will eat the bugs/bake the cake/stay at home/love the trans AND LIKE IT!!!!”
I was just telling my son this. There’s a certain class of people who just hate the fact that the plebes can just get in their cars and go anyplace they want, whenever they want.
Yup… another piece of evidence on that front. But no… we should deny our lying eyes!
A metaphor for freedom. And more-so and actual instantiation of freedom, not just a metaphor.
The Guardian is like a course in bad writing.
Happy birthday, Warty! Don’t be
anya stranger!+1
Piling on with the birthday wishes.
Hoping for more squats for you, Warty!
Deepest squats! Most strong wishes!
Indeed, happy birthday!
Happy Birthday Warty!
Thank you, thank you. I’ve been making an effort to both be stranger and not be a stranger.
“ The first conductor to use anything like a modern baton may have been Jean Baptiste Lully, a 17th-century French Baroque composer. Lully signaled his orchestra’s beat with a long wooden staff, which he thumped on the floor for emphasis. On one occasion he missed the floor, and accidentally stabbed his foot; he died of gangrene several months later.”
I guess I better stop thumping my staff.
I also like those kinds of articles.
Seems to me to be the exact product that one could get a dozen of on Aliexpress for $20 including shipping.
Or the Japanese version where they don’t outsource the fiberglass and you see some guy individually laying out the strands and hand mixing resin. Those start at $1k depending on handle.
I’m impressed there seems to be an American middle ground and price.
A practice demonstrated by Gerard Depardieu in the beginning of this film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103110
I guess I better stop thumping my staff.
Really. A stirring crescendo is best achieved using a vigorous circular motion.
And the chorus bobs their heads in agreement.
“and the center of the hot-crazy axis”
Also, pregnant.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12255715/Pregnant-Lindsay-Lohan-definitely-wants-kids-hopes-three-four.html
Ohhhh, no.
/Phoebe Buffay
Not that hot, definitely crazy
She was hot.
I would assume because (as I recall the reporting) a very large chunk of Mexico’s economy is actually people who left sending money back to their families (or the cartels probably). So like any good businessman, he’s trying to shore up his cash flow here.
👆👆
Happy birthday Warty!
🎁🎉💪🎈
Just ignore all the statements of urban politicians that they want to force mass transit, that plebian individual cars are TEH DEBBIL, that all transit must be electric, but no — we’re not going to expand the grid (so how else than “lots of people with cars will no longer have them”), etc….
Too bad with can’t run all the gas turbines on the spewage of the apologist media.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-city-bans-new-gas-stations/
Totally no evidence.
Dodged that bullet. Almost moved there.
The term they use is “road diets.”
That term would have meant something very different when I was growing up in more rural Georgia. I expect it still would in most of Louisiana.
where in GA ?
Northern Hall county for the most part — though my dad moved us around a bit, so also some time down in Perry and LaGrange.
Gas station egg salad sammich.
Called a “road diet” because that’s where it’s going to end up? 🤢
Right next to the sushi?
Road diet:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/02/cattle-truck-rear-ends-burrito-truck-in-nebraska/
Swiss is going to love that article.
“ One driver made a big mi-steak.”
Plus many more
Heh. I was driving through Stockton, CA on my way to work early one morning, and apparnetly a semi hauling donughts crashed. A veritiable massacre of Hostess products, all over the road. Cops trying to keep people from stopping and getting the “road kill”, red asphault from all the jelly filling.
Or maybe my story has too many holes in it?
The effect is higher costs and fewer people.
Do it to DC first. Shut down the Beltway and rip up the parking lots of places like the Pentagon.
ALL IS WELL!!
REMAIN CALM!!
That horse left the barn a while ago.
“ According to a paper published in Nature on June 22, COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, by mode and action, are gene therapy products and should adhere to different regulatory standards. Yet U.S. and European regulatory agencies have not classified COVID-19 mRNA vaccines as gene therapy products, which has allowed them to be regulated as vaccines against infectious diseases instead of being subjected to the more stringent regulation of GTPs.
”
https://zerohedge.com/covid-19/new-research-paper-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-are-gene-therapy-products
And there’s nothing new about the research. It’s what people involved the field have been saying for years now.
Good Morning all!
I hope you have Monday off, but if not, try to have a good Sunday.
Happy birthday Warty.
OMWC, was the cover photo from yesterday Trombone Shorty? I would recommend them to anyone who likes music. It’s a great combination of accessible and fun brass lead music made by a really talented singer and trombonist.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZG9U1HxNds
I don’t — but neither do I have a pressing work task and a lot of my coworkers have it off… so I expect a slow day in practice.
I don’t have to “work” tomorrow but I have a early morning meeting I have to attend if I don’t hear back from one or more of my employees.
2am is a bad time, I need to stay awake and be present for any questions during the call.
Yes, it was. He played at the Rochester International Jazz Festival. We also saw his cousin Glen David Andrews.
Great! I’ve seen him play a few times. What a great showman.
Here is another accessible and entertaining jazz adjacent band. Bad Bad Not Good.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vfzu33BfRHE
Lots of fun with jazz and hip hop influences.
Warning: may induce seizures
Nice. My son turned me on to them.
“First black woman socialist elected to Boston City Council is accused of totaling her car with her seven-year-old son inside – while driving on suspended license and without insurance
Kendra Lara, 33, totaled the gray 2019 Honda Civic when it crashed through a metal fence, ran over bushes, and slammed into the left side of a home in the Jamaica Plains district.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12255153/First-black-woman-socialist-elected-Boston-City-Council-crashed-car-7-year-old-inside.html
CWAC
Get out of the cities
I wonder what the fallout will be from that.
Are you saying she’s a real treasure?
I find that hard to believe.
Openly socialist…
Oh, first one to admit it?
Because Mexico has an interest in maximizing the flow of its citizens into the US and their dollars back into Mexico.
I’m curious as to what Mexico’s policies are for foreign national indefinitely present in the country.
Those boys need more range time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sedgwick
The highest ranking Union KIA died thus: Sedgwick died at the beginning of the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, on May 9, 1864. His corps was probing skirmish lines ahead of the left flank of Confederate defenses and he was directing artillery placements. Confederate sharpshooters were about 1,000 yards (900 m) away, and their shots caused members of his staff, infantrymen from the 87th Pennsylvania and 14th New Jersey, and artillerymen from the 1st Massachusetts to duck for cover. Sedgwick strode around in the open and was quoted as saying, “What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line?” Although ashamed, his men continued to flinch and he said, “Why are you dodging like this? They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.”[7] Reports that he never finished the sentence are apocryphal, although the line was among his last words.[8] He was shot by a Whitworth rifle bullet moments later under the left eye and mortally wounded.
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God
Gee, I can’t imagine why Dutch farmers would truck in conspiracy theories about the state’s desire to destroy their way of life. Or why Tucker would air far-right fringe conspiracy theories by reading Dems’ words back to them. Etc. etc.
No one is coming for your gas stoves.
What you’re seeing is a demoralization campaign in real-time.
The media is fully captured by governments and corporate interests. They’re telling you that you’re going to be serfs and then telling you that they didn’t say that.
And then they accuse alternative media of gas-lighting
An interesting read:
https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american
“ The British plan was to carve up the United States into spheres of influence, to be divided among European powers. They were thwarted only by the intervention of the Russian Tsar, Alexander II, who sent two fleets in 1863, one to New York and the other to San Francisco, warning the British against any attempt to break the Union naval blockade, as they had planned to do.”
TLDR: Southerners were useful idiots to the Brits who wanted the subjugation of their former colonies.
I have some sympathy for this argument in light of current events and the neocons. It’s obviously not the whole story, but it is remarkable how the Civil War is taught in our schools today with little mention of British, French, and Russian involvement, all of which had significant influence on the beginning and outcome of the war.
I’m sorry — they lost me there. Assume the South is let go instead of the Civil War, fine. Assume Britain and the other European powers use that to re-ingratiate themselves / turn the CSA into a puppet state… maybe. Unlikely given the Southern temperament (trading partners, sure… political allies against the rump USA? Yeah, likely… full on puppet state? Not likely… The CSA was full of patriots from their perspective, after all… and British public opinion was very anti-slavery… if they were perceived as running the government, they would have pushed for abolition… which wouldn’t have worked there either.
And while the industrial base in 1860 hadn’t been turned to war yet… the potential was still there, and the western expansion had happened. There’s no way Europe could have defeated the USA of the time, footholds in Canada and the CSA be damned. Wreck the East Coast? Probably… but we would have had the pullback to the Urals (Midwest) a century early is all. And a lot of very very pissed off US citizens. If they tried something, reconquest of the CSA and then Canada in the next 20 years would be more likely.
Oh, ok… pure fucking fantasy by British saber-rattlers for domestic consumption in 1860.
Maybe Maine might have wanted to go along (I doubt it at that point), but Canada wouldn’t have held the balance of power in North America over the US (sans CSA) — they’re just dreaming at that point. And taking Maine if the CSA was allowed to let go would have just provoked the war to the North instead of the South.
More likely the Brits would want to maintain the economic relationship with the seceded states. They’d be adversarial to the Union because of the competing mercantilism. And no chance the CS would allow undue influence from Britain after leaving the US. Also no chance the US would be successfully invaded after creating the largest and best equiped army at the time.
Yup… that’s what I found myself laughing at mentally later in the article… “Britain planned to bleed the North dry via the Civil War”.
That may well have been their plan, but their plan was stupid. Granted, I wouldn’t have expected them to know since it was the Civil War and then the Franco-Prussian war that revealed it — but the shift towards industrialized warfare was happening, and fostering an environment where your adversary converts lots of economic potential into focused war industry and has the manpower to back it up is sheer lunacy if you want to fight them later. Britain could have caused a lot of chaos in 1860 if they’d invaded Maine / blockaded the East Coast, sure… try that in 1865? Good luck, limeys. The US lacked power projection back across the Atlantic (contrary to bizarre alt-history novels, you wouldn’t want to try Monitors against Warrior and other ironclads the UK was building… but coastal defense? The Royal Navy would be sincerely f’ed.
The motives are the interesting part.
What exactly is the British “plan” for Ukraine? Why do they care so much? Do they think they can actually divide Russia and rule through proxies?
The general arc of British behavior through the past two centuries has been to stoke havoc in order to limit other nations while deftly avoiding blame for it. Look at it in the most cynical manner possible and you start to see a pattern emerge.
Could the Brits have recolonized America? Probably not. But they absolutely could have limited the emerging power of the United States had they been successful in breaking the union. And to them, that would have been a win.
Instead, they soon refocused on bringing the USA into WW1 on their side with a couple of decades of intense propaganda.
I guess my point is “Fuck the Brits.” Are we currently acting in our own interests or theirs? It seems debatable.
There’s no way Europe could have defeated the USA of the time
it’s no different from Napoleon attacking Russia except just add a 3,000 boatride before the attack begins
it took 200 years to defeat the place when it was sparsely defended by arguably stone age peoples
The CSA was full of patriots from their perspective
Today if you see the Stars and Bars, the Stars and Stripes are almost always presented equally.
“it is remarkable how the Civil War is taught in our schools today with little mention of British, French, and Russian involvement, all of which had significant influence on the beginning and outcome of the war”
Educating people about what happened is very low priority in history courses at pretty much every level. Why give a fair assessment and analysis of facts when you can twist them into your agenda du jour?
One thing to keep in mind is that Russia and England have been at odds for around 100years at that point, mostly due to the Brits pushing westward from India, into Russia sphere of influence re Central Asia.It is mostly a spy war, fought by proxies, and as someone outside looking in, facsinating. A really good book on it Peter Hopkirks The Great Game: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/138299
I just found this adorable architect and her video on The Line in Noem. She has some pretty insightful things to say. https://youtu.be/2b7uMJkvS0o
Thanks, that was fascinating. She does a great job of punching holes in the concept.
Sunday, Slutty Sunday…
https://archive.is/m5pKp
“neighborhood that has seen some folks in that community really determined to see it be successful and see things turn around,”
Community college for all
Midnight basketball.
They intend to kill us in the name of climate change.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12254167/More-gloomy-news-Biden-backs-plan-BLOCK-sunlight-Earth-bid-limit-global-warming.html
At least they aren’t killing us in the name of wiping out targeted nanowarfare, I suppose.
No one is coming for your sunlight.
🙄
Uh huh, sure.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E25/811343
Note episode title.
That thought had occurred to me.
“Bodybuilder Jo Lindner, known online as ‘Joesthetics,’ dead at 30”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/01/bodybuilder-jo-lindner-known-as-joesthetics-dead-at-30/
Steroids may have been involved.
Vax status?
Made steak and eggs this morning. Now vegetating on the couch. I should probably do something useful. Maybe I’ll fold laundry and do the dishes later. It’s supposed to storm this evening so that should be fun. *Sips mimosa*
I already did pans and dishes, a batch of laundry, and made breakfast for mom. Still haven’t done this months bills yet — some reason I’m procrastinating.
Litigate and re-litigate as necessary until you get what you want.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/why-white-house-thinks-student-222146988.html
At this point, I think it is obvious that what they want is to stir up the base/youth vote against those “stingy Republicans”. It doesn’t have to work — like the abortion issue, they just need to keep it front of mind so it seems existential.
Instead of little things like inflation, foreign policy (or lack thereof), corruption, etc. And given 2022 results, it will probably depressingly work. Yay.
Student loan “forgiveness” is trying to solve a problem the government caused in the first place.
So… a day that ends in “y”, you’re saying….
Yes, exactly.
As if they haven’t had the college grad vote locked up for the past half century.
Doesn’t hurt to fortify those votes, I guess.
Thanks, everybody. I’m gonna go see the Confederate Air Force’s B-29 in the rain today. Life is good.
That raised a question in my head — and unfortunately, this is the answer as expected. Shame. Enjoy your Superfortresses in the Mist, Warty.
Imagine how much that behemoth would cost to keep flying.
For a generation of anti-government protesters radicalized by their opposition to pandemic lockdowns, the latest protest movement is about what they claim are powerful global elites’ efforts to control, divide and even dramatically reduce the world’s population.
These unfounded ideas are spilling over into the wider society.
Three years is a generation? It’s crazy to think people could be radicalized by destructive and vindictive government policies.
“Unfounded ideas” that are openly discussed by the people supporting them…
Reading Democrat talking points back to them verbatim is conspiracy mongering.
+1 Libs of TikTok.
That should make the court non-political.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2023%2Fjul%2F01%2Fro-khanna-congressman-progressive-supreme-court-term-limits
I don’t think you understand what the court is supposed to be and do.
Contrast the media propaganda against the Supreme Court in the US with the coverage of the Israeli judicial reforms which are treated as an existential threat to democracy.
That’s totally different because FYTW.
Why do you hate reform? The far-right wingnut judges must be stopped from legislating from the bench.
Experts increasingly see Covid and the resulting lockdowns, vaccines and restrictions as a watershed moment for conspiracy-driven anti-authority activists.
“If you look at the individuals that are complaining, spreading misinformation and legitimizing conspiracy theories about 15-minute cities, they’re often the exact same cohort of individuals that spread misinformation about Covid and often it’s the same language,” Tim Caulfield, an expert in misinformation at Alberta University in Canada, said.
You could say the same thing about global warming fanaticism and plague hysteria.
I figured this meant “just the tip”.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/signs-you-micro-cheating-liking-30338578
I thought it was where IBM kept focusing on mini-cheating and lost the whole market to cheating clones.
Or an old fashioned.
That’s some mighty fine judging.
https://news.yahoo.com/proud-boys-fined-over-1-221726572.html
Seems to me that this judge is not impartial and should not be moralizing (i.e. waxing dishonest) from the bench.
Meh. They trespassed. The church has every right to support Marxist agitprop. Million dollars seems a bit harsh, though.
I like english ales. Crisp bitter decent flavor low abv…
…. keeps the hemoglobin from coagulating…
The weather is nicely cool too though a bit windy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12185871/Hunter-Biden-photographed-smoking-crack-DRIVING-speeding-172mph.html
🙄
A libertarian hero
Not enough whale fucking to move up to that class.
Impressive
He was only going 35 mph in the crack smoking picture.
But imagine if one of Trump’s sons did any of that shit.
And why wouldn’t you be proud of a son like him?
That poor victim of addiction. Good thing he has a father who loves him even though he did all those bad things under the influence, like driving and taking bribes from Chinese intelligence.
Enright was accused of answering to a cabal of globalist elites to subjugate the population and trap it in its neighborhoods.
Preposterous!
But saying sea level will rapidly rise by twenty feet, or whatever the hell it is now, is completely rational and believable. Same with claiming Dutch cows being an immediate existential threat to humanity.
If a country is non-assimilationist but takes in a lot of immigrants, hijinx ensue. – i am not sure how a country can be assimilationist with certain types of immigrants
Relevant: https://youtu.be/5Q_Na5Ou5Rs
The US has those same type of immigrants. And they do very, very well here. Some of them even grift their way into congress.
But the closest we have to a banlieu is suburban Detroit, and the surrounding areas are MUCH nicer than the city.
Yes, and she’s brave to even try.
🙂
Earlier, Scott said the tragedy “highlights the impacts and the need to deal with the overproliferation of illegal guns on our streets and the ability for those who should not have them to get their hands on them.”
I thought Maryland had gun control?
“Let’s be clear: affirmative action still exists for white people. It’s called legacy admissions,” Rep. Barbara Lee, a California Democrat, said on Twitter.
No one of any other skin color gets considered for legacy admissions? I smell bullshit.
While there is no evidence such a plan exists, Skinner is part of a growing group, which evolved from anti-vaccine protests, that has energized a campaign against environmental measures across Britain and elsewhere.
So there is evidence.
Old Guy Music is good.
The nba lost their mind again. Every decent player is getting 200 mil contracts.
Good morning, Old Man!
And happy birthday, Warty!
If a country is non-assimilationist but takes in a lot of immigrants, hijinx ensue.
Aren’t pretty much all countries non-assimilationist?
In the Old World, yes. The New World is all nations of immigrants.
Are any truly successful at assimilation?
Depends what you mean by “truly successful”?
I’d say America has done a very good job.
Around 2016, Moreno developed the idea that communities should be structured around people — not cars — and that everything someone might need during the day — from shops to schools, workplaces to doctors’ surgeries — should be reachable within a 15-minute drive or cycle.
Typical narcissistic bullshit. “I invented this idea six years ago!”
People have been talking about this since the end of WWII. Ever since Levittown.
Shouldn’t that be Leave It Town?
Why doesn’t everyone want my solutions? They must be stupid!
They had everything, including bomb shelters.
https://news.yahoo.com/video-look-levittowns-cold-war-030717524.html
It goes back to the late 1800’s, at least, with the concept of “garden cities.” Some were actually built, too, and a couple even managed to not turn into ghettos.
The idea predates the mass production of cars, which shows that cars are not actually the motivating principle.
Let us pause for a moment and reflect on how we were blessed this day in 1986 with a nearly perfect movie.
And two days ago with a change that made it impossible for those of us without Twitter accounts to see anything. Ah well.
You realize creating a burner account takes about 2 minutes, right?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/
Are you appropriating my labor? 😉
And yeah… probably… if I could be arsed enough about it. Apparently I can not.
“Florida’s new immigration law previews a DeSantis presidency
The law that takes effect this weekend has already sparked fear — and could carry human and financial costs.
In the first few weeks of May, Yesica Ramirez’s phone wouldn’t stop buzzing…
Her Orlando-area farmworker organizing group was suddenly fielding what felt like an overwhelming number of calls and texts from concerned neighbors, confused farmworkers, and fearful families. Rumors of immigration raids, of an increased police presence on highways and roads, and hypothetical worst-case scenarios were spreading through chat text chains, word of mouth, and social media….
Ramirez, who works with the Farmworkers Association of Florida, a labor and immigrant rights organization, and her team of about 20 volunteers jumped into action. Their rapid-response group spent much of late May and June individually checking out various reports of immigration officers at different locations around central Florida and talking to fearful folks who had flagged those sightings.
Those reports ended up being false — but for Ramirez, they demonstrated just how anxious and scared the immigrant and mixed-status communities she works with were, and continue to be, as this law takes effect over the weekend.”
https://www.vox.com/politics/23779772/desantis-undocumented-immigrants-florida-immigration-law-border-biden
Feels over reals
I heard the Nazis held a Nuremburg Rally in Philly this weekend.
And DeSantis, Haley, Trump and all the other hard right, white extremist supremacists were there!
Contrast this with the NBC story on the new conspiracy theorists.
Therein lies the issue with conducting yourself in an obvious and extra-legal manner and hoping the state continues to just ignore it.
Morality of the situation aside, you’ve put yourself in a treacherous position.
And allowing the state to pick and choose which laws it enforces Congress with its own problems.
Corporate Culture and the Lords of Lies
Related corporate fuckery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9GTa3a-tFo&t=1s
Scary shit.
“The presumption of “safe until proven otherwise,” which governs the way we license new chemicals and new foods, is one that has caused, is causing, and will continue to cause immense damage”
The alternative is some variation of the precautionary principle, which is an excellent way to stop all progress.
That was my first thought too.
So academics are lazier than bureaucrats…whodathunk? I’ll be working tomorrow because Biden hates America
Bureaucrats usually have to show up for work 40 hours a week, so yeah.
Hardline right wing extremists
Moms for Liberty, a “parental rights” group that has sought to take over school boards in multiple states, is looking to expand those efforts across the country and to other education posts in 2024 and beyond. The effort is setting up a clash with teachers unions and others on the left who view the group as a toxic presence in public schools.
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Moms for Liberty started with three Florida moms fighting COVID-19 restrictions in 2021. It has quickly ascended as a national player in Republican politics, helped along the way by the board’s political training and close relationships with high-profile GOP groups and lawmakers. The group’s support for school choice and the “fundamental rights of parents” to direct their children’s education has drawn allies such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a leading GOP presidential contender, and the conservative Heritage Foundation.
The group has been labeled an “extremist” organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly harassing community members, advancing anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation and fighting to scrub diverse and inclusive material from lesson plans.
The education establishment is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party. No contradiction will be tolerated.
I take the point
but am just so bored by what are essentially culture wars that wouldn’t even exist if the institutions involved were privately-held. My libertarian ideal is everyone playing their own jam, and if you’re a wacko commie idiot, just do it with other wacko commie idiots and leave me and my money out of it. I’m particularly put off by the stupid party’s mulit-decade streak of critiquing this situation quite correctly, from time to time gaining enough power to do something about it, and, instead, further expanding government’s role into constitutionally unsanctioned zones: larger government budgets, bureaucracy, interference, and eavesdropping. Schools being stupid is just a few drops in the bucket of overarching American stupidity; as such, I just can’t get interested in the minutiae.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2023/chris-evert-martina-navratilova-cancer/
nothing can really make cancer a collective experience; it’s an experiential impasse
but am just so bored by what are essentially culture wars that wouldn’t even exist if the institutions involved were privately-held.
I have come to the conclusion that organizations are incapable of sticking to their basic purpose, private or not. Mission creep will always occur.
In theory, schools exist to teach how to learn, not what to learn, but nobody wants to stand back and let their charges think ungood thoughts when civilization is on the line.