Sunday, November 30, 2025

Not Born That Way

New video:
Tucker Carlson Network

Tucker and Piers Morgan have a heated debate on whether or not people are born gay.

Neither of them are scientists, so it is not much of a debate.

I wonder how Morgan can be so sure that people are born gay, while there is no gay gene. And there are statistical variations that are hard to reconcile with people being born gay.

Somehow respectable people have been trained to say that, even though it does not even make any sense.

I am sure he would be a lot less eager to say that people are born criminal, or low IQ, or even male.

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Some Investors Understand Power Laws

Veritasium posted a new video on power laws, and how they occur naturally. It argues, for example, that fires in Yellowstone Park will occasionally be much worse than what is typical, and fire prevention tactics make the matter worse.

It also explains hwo venture capitalists make all their money on 10% of their investments. And how some people are far richer than you might expect from variation in incomes.

Another video says Europe's economy is dying.

Everyone complains that there is no good reason why anyone whould make more that $1 million per year, or be worth more than $1 billion.

I wonder if these are related. Maybe there is a law of nature that California venture capitalists and bankers understand, and that Europeans do not. As a result, Silicon Valley can crank out entrepreneurs to follow daring business plans and get big on new technology markets, and Europe cannot.

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Pinker Pushes Jewish Atheism Again

I have posted many times about Steve Pinker's Jewish Atheist pro-Enlightenment anti-Christianity, such as here, and he is at it again:
Whatever humane advances we might attribute to Jesus, his followers did not adopt them for an awfully long time. For some 1,400 years that separated Constantine’s embrace of Christianity in the early 4th century to the rise of the Enlightenment in the 18th, most Christians remained untroubled by slavery, the persecution of heretics, and brutal colonial conquest.
(The full article is behind a paywall.)

Notice that he does not compare Christianity to other belief systems. Christianity is actually quite tolerant of heretics. The Enlightenment itself was very much a Christian movement, and made possible only by Christianity.

It is ridiculous to complain about Christianity and older economic systems. Christianity had no power to change these systems. Someday it might be considered immoral to have employment without a retirement plan, and someday atheists will blame Christianity for that.

It’s notable that Kingsnorth, in his essay railing against modernity, consistently cites the Christian, never the “Judeo-Christian,” tradition.

America was founded on the secular Enlightenment principles of equality, rights, flourishing, and democratic governance. It’s no coincidence that Jews thrived here. Nor can it be a coincidence that a movement founded on parochial Christian theocracy would be accompanied by a recrudescence of the world’s oldest hatred.

No, this is crazy Jew talk. Jews hate Chrstians much more than Christians hate Jews.

Gaza had three Christian churchs -- Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Baptist. Israel has now bombed all three. American Christians have strongly supported Israel anyway.

There is no Judeo-Christian tradition. The term originally meant Jewish converts to Christianity. Only recently has it been used in the sense that Pinker uses it, which is to undermine Christianity. America was founded on Christian principles. Not Jewish.

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

UN Pushes Replacement Migration

Wikipedia says:
The Great Replacement (French: grand remplacement), also known as replacement theory or great replacement theory,[1][2][3] is a debunked[4][5] white nationalist[6] far-right conspiracy theory[3][7][8][9] coined by French author Renaud Camus. Camus' theory states that, with the complicity or cooperation of "replacist" elites,[a][7][10] the ethnic French and white European populations at large are being demographically and culturally replaced by non-white peoples—especially from Muslim-majority countries—through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the birth rate of white Europeans.[7][11][12]
It fails to mention this UN document:
Replacement Migration: Is it A Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?

ESA/P/WP.160
21 March 2000
ENGLISH ONLY
Population Division
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations Secretariat

Monday, November 24, 2025

DNA Tracing Catches Criminals

A new book claims:
We found that adding anyone charged with a felony to the law enforcement DNA database in Denmark reduced future criminal convictions by over 40 percent. Again, people responded to the higher probability of getting caught by committing fewer crimes. Being added to the database also increased enrollment in school and rates of employment — signs that folks really were on a better path. This effect was largest for the youngest men, those ages eighteen to twenty-four.
That effect seems high to me.

I do believe that radical invasions of privacy are inevitable in the future. The criminal justice payoff is too large. Everyone's DNA could be registered at birth. Surveillance cameras could be everywhere, with face recognition. GPS tracking of everyone's phone and car. All money could be traced.

Friday, November 21, 2025

The Most Dangerous Cognitive Bias

Veritasium posted a new video on the psychological effects of overconfidence.

Here is the Wikipedia explanation of a related concept:

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that describes the systematic tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability. The term may also describe the tendency of high performers to underestimate their skills. It was first described by the psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger in 1999.
The published effect is really just a misunderstanding of regression to the mean. It is further misunderstood by most of the people quoting this effect.

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Rep. Massie Leads the Epstein Coverup

Congress Thomas Massie is celebrating that Congress approved his bill to release Jeffrey Epstein files. However, it does not release all the files.

Exceptions include: classified documents, materials related to ongoing investigations, and invasion of privacy.

It is good that some more documents will be released, but this is just another coverup.

The Epstein story was big because of allegations that he was trafficking underage prostitutes to the rich and famous, and then using Israeli intelligence to blackmail them. There is no proof of any of this. From what we know, he only procured prostitutes for himself, and they were all, or nearly all, over the age of consent.

The story is that Epstein supplied 1000 underage girls to rich clients, and yet no one has been able to find a single example.

What we do know is that dozens of women were paid millions of dollars to make accusations, and those accusations were never verified. If Epstein were really video recording encountered to be used as blackmail, then there would be some evidence.

Harvard economist Larry Summers is now a casualty of the Epstein emails. But Summers was not using prostitutes. The emails merely reference an extramarital affair.

Separately we learn that the FBI has covered up for over a year the motivations behind the assassin who shot Donald Trump in the ear. And it turns out that he used preferred pronouns.

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

O'Reilly says Fuentes is Frightening

Bill O'Reilly joins those denouncing Nick Fuentes:
So Fuentes 3:38 goes on there and he says this stuff 3:41 about organized jewry and I'm going, 3:44 "What are you talking about?" All right. 3:46 He doesn't define it.

Now earlier um few 3:50 years ago he did define how he believes 3:55 uh and it's scary. Roll that tape.

[Alex Jones] 3:59 Let's just get the Hitler thing out of 4:00 the way. Do you actually admire Adolf 4:03 Hitler

[Fuentes] 4:05 in some ways? Yes. And I'm not a 4:08 national socialist and I'm not a you 4:10 know I wouldn't identify that way 4:11 because I'm a I'm a Christian. ...

4:24 I don't share this uh histrionic Jewish 4:27 view that Hitler is this exceptionally 4:30 boogeyman evil figure.

[O'Reilly] 4:34 Now that is really frightening. Now I 4:37 don't care what Nick Fuentes says. I 4:40 don't care. He doesn't know anything. 4:44 He's dumb.

Frightening? If he doesn't care about Fuentes dumb opinions, then what is frightening?

Yes, there is an organized Jewry. Why else is O'Reilly making this video? He would not make a video about an obscure theological point just because he disagrees with a dumb comment from someone he does not care about.

Fuentes said he does not share a Jewish belief, and O'Reilly says that is frightening.

O'Reilly is not Jewish, and retired a multi-millionaire. He should not have to rush to the defense of Jewish beliefs, but does it anyway. That only happens because there is an organized Jewish effort to ostracize Fuentes.

Most of the YouTube comments favor Fuentes.

The organized Jewry and Zionists are losing the hard Left Democrats, Blacks, and young people. Now they might be losing conservative Republicans. That would be a disaster for them. So they are desperate to hang on to conservative Republicans.

Mark R. Levin not only wants to cancel Fuentes, he wants to cancel Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and other mainstream conservatives who do not profess allegiance to Israel. This issue is not about Hitler and Stalin. It is about Jewish supremacy and Israel.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Black Women Uncomfortable about Hair

News:
Michelle Obama has claimed that Black women have to straighten their locks to 'follow white people's beauty standards' during a furious on-air rant. ...

'Let me explain something to white people. Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a curly pattern,' an exasperated Michelle began.

'When we straighten it to follow your beauty standards, we are trapped by the straightness.

'That's why so many of us can't swim, and we run away from the water. People won't go to the gym because [they're] trying to keep [their] hair straight for y'all! It's exhausting, expensive and takes up so much time.'

Only about 15% of the world has curly hair. Most of Asia has straight hair. She is straightening her hair mostly to conform to Asian styles, not White. Lots of White women curl their hair.

She has been saying crazy things for months.

Monday, November 17, 2025

Sierra Club goes Woke, and goes Broke

A leftist biology professor posts:
This happens over and over again. It happened with the Southern Poverty Law Center. It happened with the ACLU. It happened with the Audubon Society. And now it’s happening with the Sierra Club. What is happening? An organization with a narrowly defined but admirable mission cannot resist the ideological Zeitgeist, and embraces social justice precepts that are not universally accepted. The organization becomes riven with controversy, and it erodes, becoming damaged. (This also happened with Scientific American, remember?)

The NYT from a week ago tells us how this is happening to the Sierra Club, which has lost money and membership after deciding to branch off into Social Justice Warriorism. Read about it by clicking the headline below, or find the article archived here for free.

That article starts:
The Sierra Club calls itself the “largest and most influential grass roots environmental organization in the country.” But it is in the middle of an implosion — left weakened, distracted and divided just as environmental protections are under assault by the Trump administration.

The group has lost 60 percent of the four million members and supporters it counted in 2019. It has held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, trying to climb out of a $40 million projected budget deficit.

Its political giving has also dropped. Federal campaign-finance records show $3.6 million in donations from the Sierra Club during the push to defeat Donald J. Trump in 2020, but none as Mr. Trump stormed back to the presidency in 2024.

The article shows support collapsing in about 2020, but the real problem started decades earlier when it went pro-immigration. There are a lot of arguments for and against immigration, but for an environmentalist, migration from the Third World to the USA is overwhelmingly bad. The Sierra Club should have been overwhelmingly against it.

The story has surprisingly little to do with Donald Trump. If anything, Trump should have united them with opposition to coal-burning and other policies.

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Ancient Roman Road Map

Source

A new study identified over 68,000 more miles of ancient Roman roads than were previously known.
Year 150 AD. This is amazing.

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Some Christians more Anti-semitic than Hitler

The word anti-semitism is being thrown around looseely on both the Right and the Left, but this is new to me. From a recent Noam Chomsky interview:
the evangelicals have a very 1:36:03 interesting position on Jews and on Israel. They're the most extreme anti-semites in human history. Their 1:36:12 theology, if you look at it, is that uh it's not 100% of evangelicals, but a 1:36:18 leading part of it uh there's got to we got to look for Armageddon.

1:36:23 Yeah. the then the second coming Christ comes. What happens when Christ comes back? 1:36:30 Those who are saved go to heaven. Everybody else goes to eternal 1:36:36 predition. Mhm. What happens to the Jews? Yeah. Actuallyund according to one of the 1:36:43 denominations 160,000 can convert in time. The rest go to eternal predition. 1:36:50 Yeah. Did Hitler call for that? No.

Not even Hitler comdemned the Jews to Hell. Some evangelical Christians do, making them more anti-semitic than Hitler.

I am not sure this is true. I thought most evangelical Christian Israel-supporters believe that Jews have their own deal with God, and therefore not judged so harshly.

Even if he is right, it is bizarre to hear an atheist professor, of Jewish descent I think, complain about some religious after-life belief. If every religion condemned non-believer to Hell in the after-life, why would Chomsky care?

I post this as an example of alleged anti-semitism. It reminds me of Tucker Carlson being called an anti-semite and enemy of the Jews for saying that Christian Zionism is a heresy.

People are entitled to their religious views, which always include negative beliefs about rival religions.

Update: Chomsky is in the news from disclosures of Jeffrey Epstein emails. They were friends, and discussed many matters such as Israel and finance. There is no implication of sexual misbehavior, but everyone with any association with Epstein is being blamed.

Friday, November 14, 2025

A Third of Americans Households are Rich

People complain about the shrinking AMerican middle class, as if that were a bad thing, but look at this graph; Note that the figures are inflation adjusted, and they are for household income, not individual income.

We do have more two-earner households.

Making $150,000 a year is wealthy. You can live in a nice house, drive fancy cars, eat high-class food, and go on exotic vacations.

This wealthy sector went from 5% to 34%. So a third of American households are rich.

Thursday, November 13, 2025

No Need for Foreign Workers

News:
President Donald Trump drew criticism from those within his "Make America Great Again" base after he reinvigorated debate on one of his party's most controversial issues: H-1B visas.

The visas allow U.S. companies to hire highly skilled foreign workers for up to six years.

The issue resurfaced after Trump told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham in an interview that aired Tuesday that bringing foreign workers to the U.S. on H-1B visas is important to "bring in talent" to the U.S. While Ingraham argued that the U.S. has talent at home, Trump said that wasn’t the case.

It is not true that the visas are for highly skilled workers. There are other visa programs for that: EB-2, EB-3, O-1. The H-1B visas go to Indians and others will skills comparable to an average American college graduate.

Ben Shapiro defended the visas citing Elon Musk, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. He says they created many thousands of American jobs.

I can see the argument for Musk as he founded SpaceX, and essentially founded Tesla and a couple of other companies. But Nadella and Pichai happened to be at the right place at the right time, and cashed in on cloud computing and AI developed by others.

Google and Microsoft hired thousands of Indian programmers and engineers as cheaper substitutes for Americans, and then had to hire Indians to manage them. Nadella and Pichai rose in that environment, but are they responsible for any innovative products that created jobs? Not that I have heard. They are now making good AI products, but they are playing catchup to OpenAI and Anthropic.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Atheist Believed in Parallel Universes

Victor J. Stenger was a physicist who retired and spent the rest of life promoting Atheism. Here are some of his quotes:
The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Sounds like a skeptic, but in this recently-released interview, he says he believes in many-worlds theory!

This is baffling to me. There is not an inkling of evidence for it. It requires rejecting most of science.

Believing in parallel universe is goofier than believing in God or the Bible.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Olympics Returns to Sex Discrimination

Olympic competitions for women used to be just for women. Now it is returning to that.

News:

The Olympics is increasingly likely to ban transgender athletes from all female competition following a science-based review of evidence.

Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), told Telegraph Sport in January that she favoured a blanket ban and, after winning the presidency in March, commissioned a review that assessed the permanent physical advantages of being born male.

This should not have required a science-based review of evidence. The most decisive thing was probably the Pres. Trump executive order for a sex-based policy. It stated the obvious, after our scientific organizations went woke.

Monday, November 10, 2025

Guinness Book goes Woke

The new 2026 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records has 2 whole pages on the WNBA, and only a half page each on the NBA, MLB, NFL, and NHL.

What drives this? I don't think anyone cares about women's basketball records.

Sunday, November 09, 2025

The Rise of Nick Fuentes

Nick Fuentes has been in the news. He has this Wikipedia bio:
Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American far-right[8] political commentator, activist, and live streamer. He hosts America First, a livestream promoting white nationalism,[9][10] Christian nationalism,[7] white supremacy,[11] white genocide conspiracy theory, misogyny, anti-immigration, anti-miscegenation, anti-LGBTQ, scientific racism, Islamophobia, and antisemitism, including Holocaust denial.[10][12][13][14] His supporters are known as Groypers.
He has 500k followers on Rumble.

His enemies are digging up quotes to trash him, such as this:

Nick Fuentes: “Jews are running society, women need to shut the fuck up, Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part, and we would live in paradise”

Fuentes: “White men need to run the household, they need to run the country, they need to run the companies. They just need to run everything.”

Apparently some people are alarmed that he might be the heir to Charlie Kirk, in the attention of young conservative men.

Saturday, November 08, 2025

Watson, of DNA Fame, dies

The London BBC reports:
Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, has died aged 97. ...

"We have discovered the secret of life," they said at the time.

His later comments on race led to him saying that he felt ostracised by the scientific community.

In 2007, the scientist, who once worked at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, told the Times newspaper that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa", because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really".

The comments led to him losing his job as chancellor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

Academics are proved wrong all the time, and they do not get fired for it. No, they get fired for saying something true, but offensive.
Working with images obtained by King's College researcher Rosalind Franklin, without her knowledge, Crick and Watson were able to construct a physical model of the molecule. Maurice Wilkins, who shared the Nobel with Crick and Watson, had worked with Franklin to determine the DNA molecule's structure.
This is a little misleading, as she was credited with the images. She might have gotten Wilkins' share of the prize, if she had been still alive, and if the public knew how much those images influenced Watson.

NY Times obituary.

Update: Noah Carl writes:

It’s crucial to note, of course, that Watson’s views on race and intelligence are scientifically unimpeachable. The testing does show large average differences between Africa and Western countries. Meanwhile, surveys of experts working in relevant fields reveal non-trivial or high levels of agreement that genes contribute to psychological group differences. ... ...

Watson’s work on the structure of DNA has certainly earned him a place in history, whatever his (less accomplished) critics might say. But perhaps what he should be remembered for above all is possessing that rarest of qualities: he wasn’t a coward.

Some quotes here:
I’ve given my DNA to two of these companies. I’ve told them they can publish everything except the structure of the gene that will tell me if I’m predisposed to Alzheimer’s. I don’t want to know.
I am always amazed when people are afraid to learn their genes. Watson seems like as much as a DNA enthusiast as you will ever find, and yet he was afraid to learn one of his genes.

That gene is not even dispositive. It is just a risk factor, like cholesterol level and body mass index.

Not a coward? Ha ha.

I don't get it, but the entire related subjects of race and intelligence drive people bonkers. They do not want to know the scientific facts, and they run from examining the implications.

I would say that less that 5% of the population just want the truth, whatever it is.

Update: Here are the snide comments of a Watson-hater.

The Watson-Crick DNA work did indeed depend on the work of others, as with all scientific progress. Their crucial original idea was that DNA had two strands with paired bases, so that the strands could be split and copied as a biological process. This was the secret of life that made digital genetic coding possible. No one else had this idea.

Friday, November 07, 2025

John Rocker was Right

Vox Day writes:

Twenty-five years ago, the Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker wrote an impassioned observation about the decline of New York.

“Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you’re riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It’s depressing. The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?”

He was roundly condemned for this by the national media, by Major League Baseball, and was even forced to undergo professional counseling for the thought crime of noticing the consequences of the foreign invasion the city was undergoing. And now, with what appears to be the imminent election of a socialist Muslim born in Uganda to the highest elective office in New York City, he’s taking a well-earned victory lap.

25 years ago I criticized New York for its rapid decline into a third world country. I was forced to undergo Psychological Counseling, as if I were the crazy one. 25 years later, the city is voting in a muslim socialist for mayor.

This is an object lesson for all of the puritanical goodthinkers and immigration fetishists who drank the equalitarian Kool-Aid. Those Cassandras you condemned for being “crazy” and “racist” and “bigoted” were right all along. All of history, recent and ancient, clearly testifies to the obvious fact that if you permit a sufficient number of foreigners to enter your country, they will change it to suit their preferences with absolutely no respect for what was there before them.

The equalitarian ideology has failed. The Enlightenment has failed. Multiculturalism and anti-racism have failed. Immigration is a clear, present, and existential danger to most of the nations of the West.

If you are still having trouble understanding the concept, ask an American Indian to explain it to you.

I remember this, as an early cancelation. I think a Sports Illustrated reporter baited him into redneck some trash talk, and he naively complied. I guess his employer forced him into a public apology, but that did not help.

Thursday, November 06, 2025

Women Vote for Socialist Mohammedan

A Fox News Poll found that Zohran Mamdani got 81% of the under-30 female vote in New York City.

I guess NY Jews are not as powerful as I thought.

Was it because he is young, socialist, or Mohammedan?

I mentioned the Helen Andrews theory that feminization is the core driver behind woke politics. Maybe this helps explain the NYC mayor election. Otherwise it is hard to understand voting for a socialist Mohammedan.

As recently as 1950, NYC was 90% White.

Virginia elected a attorney general in spite of this:

In October 2025, Jones came under fire for a 2022 text conversation with fellow delegate Carrie Coyner, in which Jones repeatedly made statements advocating violence against then–House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his family. Jones stated that if he had two bullets and could shoot Gilbert, Adolf Hitler, or Pol Pot, Gilbert "gets two bullets to the head".[29][30] Jones acknowledged that he had talked about hoping Gilbert's children would die because "Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy", before describing Gilbert and his wife as "evil" and "breeding little fascists".[31][32][33]
Update: Polls also show that Momdani got 83% of the foreigner vote. Also a big majority of the non-white vote.

Wednesday, November 05, 2025

Jailed for Saying Sexual Choices are Mental

News:
A man in Switzerland is facing jail after refusing to pay a fine for a comment courts have ruled discriminates against the LGBTQ community after a three-year legal battle.

Emanuel Brunisholz, a Swiss wind instrument repairman, was convicted under the country’s anti-discrimination laws for an old Facebook comment.

In 2022, he pointed out that the biological differences between men and women are obvious by their skeletal structure.

“If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you’ll only find men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum,” he wrote on Facebook.

The post was reported to police, and Brunisholz was questioned a few months later. He was found guilty of discrimination and incitement to hatred by a court in Bern.

He appealed the decision in regional court in 2023 but was again found guilty and racked up 600 Swiss francs ($753) in court fees.

The court issued a fine of 500 Swiss francs in lieu of a ten-day jail term but Brunisholz refused to pay the fine and accepted incarceration instead, posting his summons on X earlier this month. He is to begin serving his sentence on December 2.

Tuesday, November 04, 2025

Neo-con Woman tries to Defend Feminism

Alternet reports:

Conservative/libertarian journalist Cathy Young has, at times, been highly critical of what she views as the excesses of third-wave feminism. Back in 2016, an op-ed Young wrote for the Washington Post was headlined "How Feminism Came To Be All About Hating Men."

Although the piece draw criticism from some progressives and praise from right-wing media, Young emphasized that she had no use for sexism whether it was male-bashing from the far left or misogyny from the far right. And in a lengthy article published by the conservative website The Bulwark on October 22, Young aggressively calls out a trend in the MAGA movement: blaming women for a wide range of problems.

"The latest intellectual buzz on the right is about a Compact Magazine essay that boils down to 'Women ruin everything,'" Young explains. "The piece by Helen Andrews, titled 'The Great Feminization'

I would not call The Bulwark a conservative website. It seems to hold mostly neo-con Trump-hater essays.

I mentioned Andrews' view, so I am posting a contrary view.

It’s not that women are bad, says Andrews; but their distinct qualities and values — “empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition” — transform these institutions in ruinous ways. Let too many women flock to academia, and we get touchy-feely stuff instead of “open debate and the unfettered pursuit of truth.” Too many women in journalism spell the decline of “prickly individualists” willing to brave public disapproval. '''

LET’S NOT MINCE WORDS: This a grotesquely misogynistic screed. ...

Today, there is research showing that female faculty (younger faculty, at least) and Ph.D. students in North America and the United Kingdom are more left-wing than their male peers; they are also more likely on average to prioritize social justice over truth-seeking, to support the suppression of views deemed harmful to oppressed groups, and to believe that it’s more important for the curriculum to have racial and gender diversity than to include “foundational texts.” ... Andrews tweeted:

Men have the concept of an honorable enemy. Men can engage in conflict with an opponent and still respect them. When the conflict is over, they’ll shake the other guy’s hand and accept the outcome gracefully.

Women don’t have that. If you’re her enemy, you are subhuman garbage. No rules govern the fight; no shaking hands when it’s over. It is never over. ...

Whatever the reason, this is actually the number one thing I worry about with the Great Feminization. I see it already in the female-dominated Democratic Party.

I cannot figure out these neo-cons. There is a lot of opinion, but little substance. She apparently copies a silly David French argument that her Andrews' theory does not match the French Revolution.

Another Bulwark article complains that Tucker Carlson interviewed Nick Fuentes. Exactly why this is so upsetting is not clear. It tries to imply that Fuentes is a Nazi.

It is weird that they hate Fuentes so much. He is primarily known for being America First, and being Christian. He once made an ambiguous offhand comment about "six million cookies", and Jews were very offended. The most outrageous thing he said in the interview was that he like Stalin. He did not say why.

There is also a systematic effort to ostracize Tucker Carlson, as he does not support Israel's war on Gaza.

Fuentes is “the most dangerous man in America to Jews.”
A Republican congressman Randy Fine says:
Make no mistake. Today, Tucker Carlson is the most dangerous antisemite in America.
It is weird that they focus on some podcasters, while a Mohammedan anti-Israel foreigner is about to be elected mayor of New York City. The Trump-haters talk about Nazis and Hitler all the time. Here is Ben Shapiro, a right-wing Jew, with a 41-minute rant against Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. Young continues:
Democrats are once again comparing the Trump administration to Hitler and Nazi Germany. The renewed rhetoric was the subject of debate at a Congressional hearing that included the Democratic governors of three sanctuary states.

Democrats have either called or compared President Donald Trump and his supporters to Nazis for years, going back to his first administration.

That trend began again in May when Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, compared the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Gestapo.

New rule: Just ignore anyone talking about Nazis. But some deny that they do it.
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said on Monday she doesn't believe any Democrat has compared President Donald Trump to German dictator Adolf Hitler.

Apparently Fuentes is an extremely divisive figure in the right-wing. He has just enough of a following to get attention. Some disagree with him, but think that he is raising important issues. Others consider him a huge embarrassment, and wish that he would go away.

Shapiro is particularly disturbed that Carlson said that Christian Zionism is a heresy. Shapiro is not a Christian. I do not know why he would even have an opinion on this. I do not post opinions about what Jewish law ought to be.

Mark Levin went into a rant against Carlson and Fuentes before a right-wing Jew audience:

we canceled Pat Buchanan. We canceled the John Birch Society, ... We cancel stuff all the damn time.
I assume that "we" means the Jews.

No, I do not agree with canceling Buchanan, Birch Society, or Carlson. They are all mainstream conservatives, and are not anti-semitic. Fuentes is more of a trouble-maker. I am not sure about Fuentes, but he is just another guy with an opinion.

Some of these Jews seem to be trying to convince us that Jews are the gatekeepers of the popular media. Only certain opinions are allowed.

Update: This dispute has gotten bigger than I expected. In short, conservatives are being split into America First and neo-con pro-Israel factions.

Monday, November 03, 2025

Kamala Harris writes Delusional Book

One of the craziest things about Kamala Harris's new book, 107 Days, is her claim that Joe Biden was fully competent to be President, but not to campaign for re-election.

She was happy to be his VP, without calling out his senility. But she says that he had a obligation to drop out earlier, and endorse her. She blames her election loss on not having enough time to campaign.

She also blames Donald Trump for not more accurately defining what he would do as President, and blames Elon Muskinnnnnnnth

All of this is crazy, as Harris's popularity declined the more she campaigned. The more the voters saw of her, the more they disliked her. And Trump has done a very good job of keeping his promises.

The most revealing thing here is that Harris implies that the Presidency is an easy job that can be done by a senile old man who is incompetent to do press interviews.

No, the USA Presidency is the most important and difficult job in the world.

So how could she work in the White House, and think that it is such an easy job?

The obvious explanation is that Biden was not doing the job. He was a figurehead, and a cabal of Democrat operatives were actually running the country.

It seems obvious now that everyone knew that Biden and Harris were both incompetent. Their support came from people who were really supporting the secret cabal running the White House.

Sunday, November 02, 2025

The Child Abuse Pediatricians

The NY Times announces a new podcast:
this doctor’s controversial career paralleled the rise of a new subspecialty: child abuse pediatrics, a field devoted to detecting — and preventing — child abuse.

The Preventionist charts this doctor’s path to Pennsylvania, as well as the profound damage that can result from separating parents and children; the final episode is the unvarnished story of one mother’s struggle to reunite her family after it was torn apart

Apparently this new child abuse pediatricians are like crooked lawyers for hire. If you have a messy divoce or child custody case, they can be paid to produce bogus affidavits creating suspicion of the other parent committing child abuse.

Saturday, November 01, 2025

Prince Andrew Stripped of his Titles

The NY Post reports:
In just a matter of hours on Thursday, Prince Andrew was cut loose from the royal family, stripped of his status and henceforth to be called Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His abruptly-formed new life, without titles and banished to the King’s Norfolk home, is a dramatic contrast to the position he was born into as the favorite son of the late Queen – and with his shocking years-long public downfall now finally complete, he will reportedly be in “hell”.
This is all from unproven rumors about Jeffrey Epstein.

I hear people refer to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, but it is just as bad today. The evidence against Epstein was extremely thin.

Yes, he would get massages from teenaged girls, and sometimes paid for prostitution. That can be illegal and embarrassing, but not a big deal.

What makes the Epstein story a major scandal are sensationalist allegations of pedophilia, blackmail, foreign intelligence covert operations, trafficking underage girls, systematically providing prostitutes and maybe underage girls to the rich and famous, and a DoJ report of 1000+ victims.

As far as I can tell, none of this is true. Yes, Epstein got convicted of a minor offense that was strangely federalized, and his girlfriend G. Maxwell also got convicted.

I question her guilt. She was supposed to get immunity as part of a plea deal. At her trial, a couple of women told unverified stories about events 20 years earlier. One of the them was an admitted schizophrenic who was obeying voices she said she heard in her head.

The women telling stories all got paid $3M+ for telling them.

Some say where there is smoke there is fire. I say that if there were really 1000 victimes, someone would be able to find at least one credible one. No one has.

I don't know why British royalty would go along with this nonsense. Prince Andrews says he is innocent, and no one has any evidence against him that would hold up in court. Even if he did visit a prostitute, the royal family surely has a long history of extramarital affairs.

The Pizzagate conspiracy theory made more sense.