William Deresiewicz: Academe's Divorce From Reality

I've linked to this before, but it's great, so here it is again.

Wesley J. Smith: Science Blogger Says It Should Be A Crime To Dissent From Scientific Consensus

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Ethan Siegel is apparently an idiot.

Kevin Roberts: Why Trump Tilts Toward Peace in Ukraine

Maybe the best defense of Trump's approach I've seen...though hardly decisive.

I would like to see us try another "reset" with Russia. Though maybe that has to wait until Putin kicks the bucket.

China seems to be the real threat.

Ideally, we'd be able to coax Russia at least a little Westward and have some kind of rough alliance with them against China.

Trump often knows a lot more and sees things a lot more clearly than people like me give him credit for. But I'm not really getting his NATO/Ukraine/Russia strategy.

WSJ: Putin Wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Spectacle

Can you win a spectacle?

Well, anyway...

Maine's Transanity

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Trump/Vance-Zelenskyy

Ugh.

Not good.

WI Governor Evers Wants 'Mother' Replaced With 'Inseminated Person' in (a) State Law

For stupid reasons.

Snopes, needless to say, does what it usually does--spins the facts as hard as possible leftward.

They try to turn this into some pro-same-sex-marriage thing. But that makes no sense. In the relevant law, if this were their goal, they'd need to change 'husband' to 'spouse' in one place.

But, of course, that's not what this is really about.

It's about advancing gender pseudoscience.

Understand that, in all likelihood, the left is never going to give this up. They'll just keep making up pseudo-scholarly neologisms, attempting to redefine ordinary words, and pushing this bullshit in whatever way they can find.

'Inseminated person' is just idiotic. It's also dehumanizing. It's reminiscent of their suggestion that 'front hole' should replace 'vagina.' 

Progressivism has become more and more difficult to distinguish from mental illness.

Carolina 92 - Miami 73

Five in a row.