…but how did this happen?
Competence doesn’t seem to be a high priority with this administration.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Back On The Air (Sort Of)
Momentarily.
So, I came down with a cold on Tuesday evening. I first noticed it at a U of Michigan reception at SciTech after the main reception (attendees were in high spirits after their football team had won their first national championship after a quarter of a century, unalloyed by having to unfairly share it with Nebraska; I say “unfairly” because many think that Missouri beat them but lost on a bad call). I noticed that my throat was getting a little sore, and my nose was starting to run. (Interestingly, it was the sickest I’ve been since long before Covid).
Anyway, I was better on Wednesday, and attended the conference, then spent the later afternoon and evening with my niece who lives in Orlando. I had a scheduled flight to DC on Thursday evening, but decided to go to the airport and get out earlier on standby, and arrived here late yesterday afternoon. My nose started running again and I had a rough night sleeping, and I lost my voice during the day, but I’m on the mend now. I expect I’ll be much better tomorrow, and fine for the upcoming trial next week.
But I’m spending the weekend cramming for my upcoming testimony, probably Wednesday or Thursday, as a hostile witness for the plaintiff, so probably light blogging not just this weekend, but for the next three-and-a-half weeks. So be grateful if you get any free ice cream between now and the second week of February.
Another Artemis Delay
I wish that every time some politician (and Bill Nelson is definitely one of those) says that “Safety is the highest priority,” someone would ask them, “What is safe enough? When are you going to fly? How safe will it be then? If safety is the highest priority, why would you ever fly? Not flying is the only way to make safety the highest priority.”
The True Role Of The Central Bank
…is apparently to prop up the big banks.
Ackman’s War To Make Universities Accountable
Good. Scorch the earth.
California’s Falling FOrtunes
The Democrats (including Newsom) continue to take a battle ax to the state.
I fear that with the departure of the sensible, the place is in a political death spiral.
If They Can Do It To Trump
…why can’t they do it to Biden?
The Democrats never seems to think ahead to what happens when the Republicans decide to play by their new rules.
“The Adults are Back In Charge”
Time for a factory reset at the Pentagon.
We’re not going to get one until we get a new president.
The Justified Backlash Against DEI
On how it expanded from the hothouse of the universities to society at large.
What Next For Harvard?
Having Gay step down as president doesn’t solve the problem.
[Update a few minutes later]
A Gay fisking (cue whining from Paul in comments that he doesn’t like fisking, so he’s forewarned).
[Update a couple minutes later]
It occurs to me that one of the absurdities that the DEI religionists attempt to impose on normal people (successfully at places like the NYT and AP) is to capitalize “black” as though it is some special privileged status. How does one determine whether a person is worthy of such a prestigious designation? Is Rachel Dolezal? As with being a man or a woman, is it simply a matter of claiming one’s status?
I refuse.
[Update a while later]
Carol Swain’s attorney demands answers from Harvard.
Apropo of nothing, I had lunch with Carol Swain in the fall of 2020 in Omaha (same event where I met Jay Bhattacharya).
[Update a few more minutes later]
Claudine Gay and the great DEI grift.
[Late-morning update]
The real scandal of the Harvard/Gay affair.
Yes, the lengths they were willing to go in defending the indefensible (almost) solely because they couldn’t bring themselves to provide a “victory” to a political opponent is sort of amazing.