Loose Ends
May 25, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• No sooner do I note yesterday that Vanity Fair had lost its mind with its “DeSantis is Hitler” headline than The Atlantic says to VF, “Hold my Bud Light.” In fact they did a series to one-up VF: It can no longer be denied: The Atlantic has gone to pot. Not to be left behind, behold The Root: • Finally—the long-awaited J.J. Abrams reboot/re-imagining of Free Willy: Revenge of
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May 9, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• With the Branch COVIDians holding fast against the lab leak evidence and in favor of the “wet market” hypothesis for the origins of the Wuhan flu, here is some news that isn’t getting much coverage in the mainstream media: Wuhan market samples fail to shed further light on COVID origins Samples collected at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic
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May 4, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• I forget who first made the joke back in the Reagan era that we should actually encourage the public schools to teach sex education, because then no one would know how to do it. This comes back to mind with this news: U.S. History Scores for 8th Graders Plunge National test scores released on Wednesday showed a marked drop in students’ knowledge of U.S. history and a modest decline
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April 27, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Lots to catch up on after another road trip (principally to attend Ammo Grrrll’s “Commenter-Con II,” which was a total hoot and a half—recap to come soon). • Tucker Carlson’s Twitter video released last night is up to nearly 50 million views as of this morning. Looks like he’s the Obi Wan Kenobi of our media wars: strike him down, and he becomes more powerful than ever. • More on Carlson:
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April 16, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• This just tears it. I’m ready to mount the barricades: Jeeves and Wooster stories censored to avoid offending modern readers PG Wodehouse classics the latest to be rewritten as Penguin also includes trigger warning that the texts use ‘outdated’ language. This fresh travesty has me thoroughly disgruntled, and nothing the woke publishers can do will gruntle me. I’ll await instructions from Jeeves on how to undo this. In the
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April 9, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Finally—ChatGPT AI is getting to the bottom of this core metaphysical question: • Good news for Chris: • Poor Nancy (though I can’t decide if this is a wannabe Babylon Bee-style satire, or wacko agent-provocateurs): Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was brutally heckled while speaking recently at a New York City college in Manhattan and the barbs by a number of protesters hit a little too close to home,
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April 2, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Major League Baseball is back on the field with a whole new set of regulations designed to improve the game. So far the early evidence suggests games are going quicker, and to be sure if baseball got any slower it would start competing with farming for action and excitement. The pitch clock provokes a shrug. I imagine pitchers and batters will adapt well enough. The ban on the shift—placing
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March 30, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• So, he’s a ham sandwich after all (assuming our readers know the cliche about grand juries). But what kind of ham? I’m torn between Black Forest and honey-baked, but definitely uncured. Totally not Spam ham, as a certain podcast partner insists. Served on white Wonderbread (the official bread of MAGA rallies—it has over 20 chemicals and additives to keep us healthy!) with a large slathering of mayo. • Trump
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March 28, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• The mainstream media is struggling with how to cover the Nashville shooter, because the highest sin on the left today is using the wrong pronoun. So was the shooter male or female? Yes. Entire “news” stories are being written without any pronoun at all. The New York Times is twisting itself into a pretzel: • Feel Good Story of the Day: NPR lays off 100 employees as company faces
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March 24, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Strange that we don’t hear much about the glories of Modern Monetary Theory just now. • Next time Capitol One asks me, “What’s in your wallet?”, I’m going to say: “Cash. Cash is what’s in my wallet, thank you very much.” • I dunno, I think the COVID Nurse Dance Troops did it better than striking LA teachers: Theres nothing more beautiful and powerful than organized workers fighting for
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March 22, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Let’s start with the Feel Good Story of the Day: Los Angeles teachers are about to go on strike (I know—how could you ever tell?), but many support staff have jumped the gun and already walked off the job, causing classes for half a million students to be canceled yesterday. Parents should heave a sigh of relief if a strike shuts down LA schools for good, though that is
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March 20, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Recent political history in one sentence: the Democratic Party gave up the working class for the woking class. • Update on the Dutch election that John and I noted over the weekend: when all the votes were counted, the farmers protest party captured 17 seats in the 75-seat Senate, up from 15 as originally results suggested. The previous four-party ruling coalition can’t survive, and it would seem to be
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March 17, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Stanford University is on a roll, quickly leaving the field behind in the contest for the title of the worst university in the country. Stanford employee Jennifer Gries lied about rapes to get revenge on coworker: DA A Stanford employee who claimed she was brutally raped on campus twice by a coworker was charged with lying as part of a revenge scheme that also put some cash in her
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March 13, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Fauci is doubling down. Here’s what he had to say yesterday about the lab leak hypothesis: • Over the last few years the big woke complaint about the Academy Awards went under the banner “Oscars So White.” So are now going to start hearing “Oscars So Asian”? For the second time in four years, an Asian-made film won best picture (“Parasite” in 2019, and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” last
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March 5, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• It turns out employers have come up with a genius method to screen out potential employees who will be needy narcissistic nuisances in the workplace: Resumes including ‘they/them’ pronouns are more likely to be overlooked, new report finds . . .We sent two “phantom” resumes to 180 job postings. The resumes were identical, except the test resume included they/them pronouns, and the control did not. Though most companies were
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March 2, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Boy, I’ll bet no one could see this coming: NYC police want shoppers to remove masks before entering stores Face masks, once an essential Covid-19 protective measure, are now being worn by criminals to conceal their identities, according to New York police who are urging businesses to unmask customers before letting them in stores. The recommendation is a 180-degree turn from mask-wearing norms at the onset of the pandemic.
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February 27, 2023 — Steven Hayward
• Warren Buffett has been a Democrat most of his life for some foolish reason (his father was a conservative Republican congressman from Nebraska who wrote occasionally for Human Events in the 1950s), but now and then he wakes up to the economic idiocy and predacity of Democrats. As you may know, President Biden, following the lead of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, attack stock buy backs as “giveaways” to
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