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Bizarre photo showing giant Bidens beside miniature Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter keeps the Explainers busy.

About 300 students will get to sit at the ceremony, while their families cheer them on virtually. According to the school’s ceremony plans, family members — even the parents who helped pay the tuition — will not be allowed to sit in the stands. … While the students will be sitting about six feet apart …

Continue reading “Virtual graduation at Caltech”

One school district in Washington state has evidently decided that Asians no longer qualify as persons of color. https://reason.com/2020/11/16/equity-report-north-thurston-asian-students-of-color/

Will the electric guitar intro work? A 36-year-old CIA employee also wants you to know how else she sees herself – that she is proudly a “woman of colour,” is “intersectional” and is a “cisgender millennial”. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3132143/why-woke-cia-recruitment-video-angered-us

Elliott is telling analysts that the sell-off is overdone – and comparing the decline to one following an advertiser pullback during Black Lives Matter protests last year – and when Twitter banned the account of former President Donald Trump, according to the report. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3689377-twitter-cuts-losses-on-report-elliott-is-buying-post-earnings-slide

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/us/census-news-republicans-democrats.html

We’re now in chapter two of the story and we still don’t know how it started. https://www.9news.com.au/world/pfizer-vaccine-for-youngsters-children-12-to-15-eu-drug-regulator-evaluating/72a0e87e-8dc4-4ba1-a07b-45e79be96727

Frederick Forsyth should write a book. https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/retired-french-generals-boost-marine-le-pen-as-emmanuel-macron-is-warned-of-divided-country-1.1212271

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/world/europe/france-marine-le-pen-acquitted-isis.html Ms. Le Pen, head of the National Rally, posted graphic pictures in 2015 to protest comparisons between the terrorist group and her party. NYT

Nobody knows the virus’ origin for sure but it would be foolish to rule a lab accident out simply from political correctness. https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/exclusive-classified-study-found-covid-19-could-have-originated-in-chinese-lab

Made in the Philippines words will bounce off Made in China armor plate. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-04/phillipine-foreign-minister-china-south-china-sea-teddy-locsin/100113638

Because you’ll be canceled for racism, even though the criticism is directed against Communism. https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/10/china-xi-jinping-totalitarian-authoritarian-debate/

The stealth progressive president. https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/05/03/cnn-biden-admin-wants-to-outsource-spying-on-americans-to-private-firms-to-bypass-fourth-amendment-n1444246

The rise of Covid anxiety syndrome. Do you have it? The anxiety syndrome is characterised by compulsively checking for symptoms of Covid, avoidance of public places, and obsessive cleaning, a pattern of “maladaptive behaviours” adopted when the pandemic started. Now researchers have raised the alarm that the obsessive worrying and threat avoidance, including being unwilling …

Continue reading “The Frankenstein meme”

The new numbers came out last week, and they are beyond harsh: Asians won 54 percent of this year’s freshman class seats; whites, 28 percent; Hispanics, 5 percent and African-Americans, 4 percent. Whereupon Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter demanded an end to test-based admissions — because “It’s far past time for our students to be …

Continue reading “Equity means quotas”

Someone asked me why so many polymaths were Eastern Europeans and seemed to thrive in conspiratorial environments, sometimes actual secret cities in the old USSR, the initiates of mysteries under hierophants.

Events in Texas raise the question of whether the alleged Biden strategy of being the stealth progressive hitman is really working. Maybe the voters can see through it and are flocking to the Trump banner in response. An antipathy to Biden will manifest itself as sympathy for Trump. Voters in a Texas House district chose …

Continue reading “The struggle for the GOP”

New at the Belmont Club. The siren song of consensus science versus the urgency of finding a real solution.

There are two measures of a civilization. The first is the physical expanse of its possessions. The second is the vitality and robustness of its spirit. Sohrab Amari’s sense of desolation and depression in New York suggests a fragility at odds with the solid steel and stone.