Female Mating Strategies have Changed

I always thought that men were instinctly more interested in promiscuous sexual encounters, placing a high value on a woman's sexual attractiveness. Woman were the opposite, and looked for long-term mate values, stability, fidelity, resources, marriage, and eventually children.

There is both empirical and theoretical evidence from evolutionary psychology. A man can have more offspring by being promiscuous, while a woman cannot.

Now I think that I have been wrong.

Surveys now say that boys are more interested in marriage and family than girls.

Studies of online dating sites show that women are much more fixated on physical appearance than men. Women only swipe right on the top 1% of men, based on a photo.

Promiscuity now appears to be a lot more common in women than men. There are lots of 25yo men who have never had sexual relations, while the typical 25yo woman has had 10+ sex partners.

Marriage norms have relaxed a lot since the 1950s in the USA. I would have thought that women would be the complainers about this trend, as their instincts would be to stay married to a husband even if he is unfaithful.

I now believe female instincts are not towards monogamous marriage at all.

Given the choice, many women prefer to be one of several mistresses to an alpha man, than to have a husband of her own.

Every girl's favorite fairy tale is Cinderella. Their favorite movies are about slutty girls and prostitutes. The poor girl throws herself at the alpha man, and no one else is good enough for her. So lots of girls spend their 20s chasing and seducing alpha men, and postponing marriage.

An example in the news is the Call Her Daddy host, whose wildly popular podcast celebrated female promiscuity. Now that she is 32yo, she has married a Hollywood movie producer and is expecting a child. I listened to one of her episodes once, where she and a guest discussed playing for a girls soccer team. It gave the impression that the main topic of conversation in a girls locker room is discussing their latest venereal diseases.

The dating apps are all going bankrupt, because women no longer use them to find long-term mates. The women mainly seek flings with alpha men.

Popular advice for women is to have loose morals and adultery fantasies:

Well, you’re not alone. In an article in New York magazine headlined “The Secret to a Great Marriage? Crushes on Other People” the female writer makes the argument that fancying other people is not just inevitable but healthy for a relationship.

Many wealthy countries now have low fertility rates, and the leading explanation is that middle-class women do not want to have kids. It is not that they cannot afford kids, as the lower income groups have kids at higher rates.

I am not sure if feminism is the cause or the effect. Not wanting kids is correlated with feminist views.

RIP Mark Fuhrman

Mark Fuhrman has died. He was the cop famous for finding the OJ Simpson bloody glove, and then denying under oath having used the N-word in the past ten years. The trial popularized that euphemism. A recorded interviewed proved that he had used it 9.5 years earlier.

During his closing argument, defense attorney Johnnie Cochran called Fuhrman "a lying, perjuring, genocidal racist", likening him to Adolf Hitler. He argued that Fuhrman had planted the bloody glove on Simpson's estate as part of a racially motivated plot against Simpson, which could be traced back to Fuhrman's first encounter with the interracial couple in 1985.

I thought that he would be allowed to explain that use in a Hollywood role-playing interview was harmless, but he was prosecuted for perjury. Some say that his use of the N-word was the main reason OJ was acquitted.

The blood evidence against OJ was overwhelming. His blood was found at the scene of the crime, and his victims' blood was found on his possessions. Complaining about the N-word was just a way of rationalizing the acquittal. Fuhrman was the only one convicted.

A 2020 court case found:

Not only is the word "nigger" undoubtedly the most hateful and inflammatory racial slur in the contemporary American lexicon; …; but it is probably the single most offensive word in the English language. See, e.g., Ayissi-Etoh v. Fannie Mae (D.C. Cir. 2013) (Kavanaugh, J., concurring) ("[The] epithet ['nigger'] has been labeled, variously, a term that 'sums up … all the bitter years of insult and struggle in America,' [L. Hughes, The Big Sea: An Autobiography], 'pure anathema to African-Americans,' Spriggs v. Diamond Auto Glass (4th Cir. 2001), and 'probably the most offensive word in English.' [Random House Webster's College Dictionary]. See generally [A. Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family]; [H. Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird]…. No other word in the English language so powerfully or instantly calls to mind our country's long and brutal struggle to overcome racism and discrimination against African-Americans."); R. Kennedy, The David C. Baum Lecture: 'Nigger!' as a Problem in the Law, 2001 U. Ill. L. Rev. 935 (although "[t]he American language is (and has long been) rife with terms of ethnic, racial, and national insult: kike, mick, wop, nip, gook, honkie, wetback, chink, [etc.] … 'nigger is now probably the most offensive word in English'"); Dictionary.com, available at https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nigger?s=t ("The term nigger is now probably the most offensive word in English. Its degree of offensiveness has increased markedly in recent years, although it has been used in a derogatory manner since at least the Revolutionary War.").

The word is not really a 'pure anathema to African-Americans,' as they use the word all the time. I suspect that 99% of usage today is not actually offensive.

How New York is being Destroyed

Headline from a few months ago:

Mayor Mamdani: South Africa is the model for New York

The new mayor said at his inauguration that Nelson Mandela's 'Freedom Charter' was his blueprint

Myth of the Islamic Golden Age

Scholars often argue that Islam is not inherently bad, and their proof is that Islam once had a Golden Age. That was 800-1200 AD in the Mid East, and somewhat later in Spain. Islam just needs to be reformed, to return to its former glory.

Winston Marshall refutes this in this interview. He says that Islam expanded by force, not by trade, and by subjugating Christians, Jews, and others. The supposed great accomplishments under Islam were really from non-Moslems whose culture contined under Islamic rule. Eventually Islam completely took over in those countries, and that golden age ended.

Spain/Portugal was the exception, as there the Christians eventually expelled the Moslems. Spain and Portugal then became great naval empires.

Kars4Kids is a Jewish Scam

News:

f you’ve ever heard the “1-8-7-7-KARS-4-KIDS” jingle, you’ve probably heard it a million times. In states where this car-donation charity operates, it’s been running obnoxiously repetitive singing-kids ads for decades with the intensity of a shock-and-awe military campaign. But after all those years of operation, one disgruntled donor took it to court and got a judge to kick Kars4Kids off California airwaves for practicing “an actionable strategy of deception.”

From the court ruling:

The Defendant’s case included the testimony of Kars4Kids’ Chief Operating Officer (COO), Esti Landau’s strikingly candid testimony. She admitted that the 30-second advertisement, which has been running for two decades, “does not say anything” about the charity’s specific nature. She confirmed: that Kars4Kids is a Jewish organization, yet the word “Jewish” is absent from the ad.; that the primary function of Kars4Kids is to fund Oorah, an organization dedicated to Jewish heritage and summer camps in New York and New Jersey; that while 25% of revenue is derived from California, Kars4Kids has no functional programs in California beyond a “backpack giveaway” characterized as a branding exercise;  over 60% of the funds of Kars4kids go to Oorah, approximately 30% is spent on further advertising, and another 6% on administrative expenses; that the website states, “Because kids are our future. Learn how you can make a difference in the life of a child” as a central element of the Kars4Kids advertising campaign, but it is not found in the 30-second jingle.

You should not have to hear that dishonest jingle again.

The Woke Mind Virus Killed my Son

So says Elon Musk, referring to transgenderism.

He lost his case against Openai today, on a technicality. The jury said that he waited too long to sue, because he knew Openai was going non-profit long before it did.

How Three French Philosophers Ruined Us

Is France responsible for all the evils of the modern world. I don't think so, but read this:

Brivael Le Pogam
@brivael
Translated from French
I want to offer my apologies, on behalf of the French, for giving birth to French Theory (which in turn gave birth to the worst of all ideological monstrosities: wokism).

We gave the world Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. And then, in the intellectual ruins of post-1968, we gave Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Three brilliant men who forged, in the elegance of our language, the ideological weapon that today paralyzes the West.

We must understand what they did. Foucault taught that truth does not exist, that there are only power relations disguised as knowledge. That science, reason, justice, the medical institution, the school, the prison, sexuality—everything is merely a staging of domination. Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning, that every signifier slips away, that every reading is a betrayal, that the author is dead and the reader reigns supreme. Deleuze taught that we should prefer the rhizome to the tree, the nomad to the sedentary, desire to the law, becoming to being, difference to identity.

Taken individually, these are debatable theses. Combined, exported, and popularized, they form a system. And that system is a poison.

For here’s what happened. These texts, unreadable in France, crossed the Atlantic. The departments of Yale, Berkeley, and Columbia absorbed them in the 1980s. They found there a soil that did not exist among us: American Puritanism, its racial guilt, its obsession with identity. French Theory married this substratum, and the child of that union is called wokism.

Judith Butler reads Foucault and invents performative gender. Edward Said reads Foucault and invents academic postcolonialism. Kimberlé Crenshaw inherits the framework and invents intersectionality. At every step, the matrix is French: there is no truth, there is only power, so every hierarchy is suspect, every institution is oppressive, every norm is violence, every identity is constructed and thus negotiable, every majority is guilty.

That’s how three Parisian philosophers, who probably never imagined their practical consequences, provided the operating software to an entire generation of activists, university bureaucrats, HR managers, journalists, and legislators. That’s how we ended up with a civilization that no longer knows how to say whether a woman is a woman, whether its own history is worth defending, whether merit exists, whether truth can be distinguished from opinion.

It’s shit for one simple reason, and it must be stated calmly. A civilization stands on three pillars: the belief that there exists a truth accessible to reason, the belief that there exists a good distinct from evil, the belief that there exists a heritage to be transmitted. French Theory set out to dynamite all three. Not out of malice. Out of intellectual play, fascination with suspicion, hatred of the bourgeoisie that had nurtured them. But the result is there. An entire generation learned to deconstruct and never learned to build. An entire generation knows how to suspect and no longer knows how to admire. An entire generation sees power everywhere and beauty nowhere.

I apologize because we French bear a particular responsibility. It’s our language, our universities, our publishers, our prestige that gave this nihilism its chic packaging. Without the legitimacy of the Sorbonne and Vincennes, these ideas would never have crossed the ocean. We exported doubt the way others export weapons.

What is being built now, in Silicon Valley, in AI labs, in startups, in workshops, in all the places where people still make things instead of deconstructing them — that is the response. A civilization is rebuilt by builders, not by commentators. By those who believe that truth exists and is worth devoting oneself to. By those who embrace a hierarchy of the beautiful, the true, the good, and are not ashamed to transmit it.

So, forgive us. And back to work.

Harvey Weinstein gets another Hung Jury

Harvey Weinstein is widely hated for being a sex criminal, but a third NY jury failed to convict him. He has dozens of accusers, including Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom's wife.

I think it is clear that Ronan Farrow and the NY Times sold us some bogus stories. Weinstein is sleazy, but there is very little evidence he committed crimes.

The Origins of Human DNA

Popular explanations of DNA percentages can be very confusing. Biologists say we have 98% the same as chimps, and 50% the same as each of your parents. And 50% with bananas, and 2% with Neanderthals. It is all nonsense.

From a New Scientist video:

Homo sapiens aren’t as unique as we once thought. In fact, only about 1.5 to 7 per cent of our DNA originated in our species alone. Everything else we share with our ancestors and those human species we once coexisted with, including Neanderthals, Denisovans and even some yet-to-be-identified "ghost populations". This rewrites the story we have told ourselves about our species. We just aren’t that unique.

When our ancestors met these other human species, they didn't just compete with them: they mated with them. And those encounters left a permanent record in our DNA. In other words, those ancient humans we thought had vanished didn't necessarily disappear... Some of them are still here inside you.

No, our ancestors did not mate with other species. Our ancestors were those Neanderthals and other humans.

It does explain at 9:37 that the widely held Out Of Africa theory has been proved wrong.

No, Israelis are not using Dogs for Torture

If you want to know the evils of the Jews, you have to read the Jewish and Israeli publications. Now the NY Times is reporting that the Israel army is using specially trained dogs to rape and torture Gaza Arab prisoners.

This sounds very unlikely to me.

Jews control the NY Times. Why is it publishing this stuff?

For years, Jews has indignantly made outrageous claims of anti-semitism, blood libel, ancient prejudice, conspiracy, genocide, racism, Nazi, war crimes, etc.

Now everyone makes these accusations against the Jews.

Negative Correlation between Looks and Talent

Here is a good point about correlations:

The paper claims "Across the highest adult performance levels, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance." This is a classic example of Berkson's paradox.

Here is a simplified example to understand this: Assume that to be a successful actor you have to be either extremely good looking or extremely talented. Assume also that talent and looks are independent in the population. However, among sucessful actors you will observe a negative correlation between looks and talent. This doesn't meant anything beyond the selection process and should not be extrapolated.

My favorite example-joke of this is that basketball points scored is negatively associated with height among NBA players. (because to be an NBA player you have to be very tall OR be very good at scoring).

It refers to this AAAS Science paper, mirrored here. More discussion here.

The paper concerns comparing elite adult performance to elite youth performance. The top performing adults come from the top performing youths. But if you look at the correlation the wrong way, as in this paper, you might wrongly conclude the opposite.

Update: David Epstein brags about this paper as confirming his books on the subject. He makes the same statistical error.

One Battle After Another

The movie One Battle After Another won the top awards at the recent Oscar ceremony. I did not see it. I thought it was a war movie.

Actually it is about leftist terrorists fighting White supremacists. The major subplot is about a Black woman who sexually manipulates and betrays two White men on opposite sides of the battles. One of them is a White supremacist who is eventually killed for having a child with the Black woman.

That was a spoiler. I am skipping the movie.

Jefferson on Slavery causing War

Thomas Jefferson wrote a well-known letter to John Holmes on April 22, 1820, expressing deep alarm over the Missouri Compromise debates and warning that the slavery issue threatened the Union. In the letter, Jefferson famously described the crisis as "like a fire bell in the night" that "awakened and filled me with terror."

He was predicting the Civil War.

He helped abolish the slave trade, and wanted to expatriate Negroes to Sierra Leone Africa or other such places. Such a move would have been costly, but a lot cheaper than a war. He did not believe that freed Negroes and Whites would co-exist peacefully.

I wonder what he would have thought about the USA today, importing millions of people that will never be assimilated. Are we headed for war? Is there any plan that might avoid it?

I keep seeing articles on the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, and how we are still trying to live up to the vision of Jeffersona and Lincoln. Eg, see this. Not everyone realizes that Jefferson and Lincoln were very much opposed to the social and political equality of Negroes and Indians. They wanted to ship the Negroes to Africa.

When they said all men were created equal, they mean White Anglo Saxon Protestant law-abiding property-owning native-born adult citizens.

LA Cops Banned from Petty Traffic Stops

The NY Post reports:

Los Angeles City Council just threw its full weight behind a crack down on LAPD’s pretextual stops.

In a unanimous 14-0 vote, lawmakers moved to rein in the traffic stops, a routine tool officers have long used to pull drivers over for minor violations and probe for bigger crimes. ...

“This is a big down payment,” he said, signaling more changes ahead. The vote caps six years of City Hall buildup that began in the wake of the George Floyd protests.

Cops would stop you for a broken tail light, and then discover evidence of more serious crimes.

Apparently this disproportionately affected Black and Brown drivers.

The NY Times reports

What Are 'Teen Takeovers' and Why Are Police Struggling to Stop Them?

Across the country, police and city officials are trying to crack down on sometimes violent youth gatherings, but the teens themselves say they need some way to socialize and blow off steam ...

“There was a lot of dog whistling there about the fact that these are Black kids who are gathering together in these large groups, and we should be afraid of them,” Mr. Steinberg said.

Black and Latino youth gatherings are more likely to be assumed as criminal, said Kristin Henning, a Georgetown University law professor who specializes in juvenile justice. White children in skate parks in the 1980s and 1990s did not generate nearly the same level of surveillance and arrests as Black gatherings, she said.

Why would Black/Latino youth gangs get more scrutiny that Whites in skate parks? No one wants to say the obvious.

An AI LLM Wrote the South Africa AI Policy

People wonder how a super-smart AI LLM could take over the world. The humans would always be in control of the AI policies.

South Africa has already been taken over by Commie Blacks, and the Blacks have been taken over by AI. A local paper reports:

Minister of communications and digital technologies Solly Malatsi has withdrawn the draft AI policy which was open for public comment.

It turned out to be written by an AI LLM.

Inferior Whites have Neanderthal Blood

From a South African Black man, posted on X/Twitter:

The problem that South Africans have right now is that we don't understand white people. White people are inferior species to us. We are homo sapiens. They've got Neanderthal blood in them. This is the science. And this is not science that was done by black people. It was done by them. You understand?

Abutl, Dobby Lewis, they were eugenicists. They studied this and they realized that they're inferior to blacks. The white population is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. For us, it makes no sense to descend into the savagery that they have. Whatever land that they're holding on to, either way, their numbers are dwindling. Whatever leadership that they had is dying out as well. And you know about wealth disappearing after the third generation that it's passed down to, you know.

So, we are they're on the last generation. We're dealing with the weakest whites that the world has ever seen. So we expect to have ubundu humanity. Unfortunately, by the strictest definition of what a human being is. White people are just below human beings. You are negotiating with an animal. A wild dog that you're trying to train to be tamed, to be who guards your house. You can never do that.

So we're expecting Ubuntu from them. We're like, you stole our land. You you butchered our people and everything else, and we just want justice. We're not out for your blood. We're not chopping off your heads. is not doing anything. Why don't you guys understand that? Why don't you guys have Ubunt? Why don't you guys have a heart? They don't because they're incapable of that. You cannot expect the same behavior of a human being that you're expecting of.

The word Ubuntu is a Nguni Bantu term from Southern Africa. At its core, Ubuntu is a philosophical concept that translates to "I am because we are" or "humanity towards others."

It is true that it is common for White anthropologists to say that European Neanderthals were inferior to Black African homo sapiens. And also that White numbers are dwindling, compared to non-whites.

South Africa has more racial laws today that they ever had under White rule. The Black commies have taken over, and ruined the country.

Kamala Harris Leads the 2026 Race

Kamala Harris . leads in all the polls for 2028 nomination. The betting market has her tied with AOC, behind Newson. In the betting market, Newsom, Harris, AOC lead.

Here is her 26-year-old step daughter Ella Emhoff:

...I'm just sitting here crocheting, waiting for a friend, and I was just listening to this podcast that The Wall Street Journal put out about SSRIs and anti-anxiety meds and kind of the over-prescription of them in America.

And it was making me think a lot because I've been on SSRIs for over a decade, almost fifteen years probably, and they were calling out the lack of research on long-term use of these things. ...

But I've noticed that every time I've gone off of it for a week or missed it or for whatever reason, like, it has been really hard for me, and I've had a really hard time.

The video shows her with several visible ugly tattoos.

So she has been on those drugs continually since age 11? Without considering the consequences?

I do not want to pick on this girl, as she is a product of the culture. And I do not know whether Harris personally approved the drugs and tattoos.

Update: Matt Walsh broadcast The Dark Side Of Mental Health | Ep. 1776. In short, no one knows how SSRIs work, and they probably do more harm than good. In particular, they do not correct a chemical imbalance in the brain.

Blacks and Crazy White Liberal Women

In the last ten years, White Liberal Women have become much more leftist, and more crazy. Here is a Black podcaster, who does not appreciate them:

The Great Feminization: How White Guilt Replaced Black Fathers

Is the relationship between White Liberal Women and the Black community based on progress, or is it a psychological & Sinister Sympathy? Today we look at the data, from Pew Research to Yale studies, to uncover how a "Maternal Matriarchy" is trading Black manhood for White Guilt.

In this video, we discuss:

Why 56% of young White Liberal women are spiraling while Black self-esteem is at an all-time high.

The "Great Feminization" of American institutions and the removal of Black fathers.

How DEI is a shell game where White women win the seats and Black people get the lollipops.

The "Black Lexapro": Using victimhood as a psychological antidepressant.

I also enjoy this channel with funny skits on White Liberal News.

Court Rules Against Racial Gerrymandering

The Atlantic magazine posts:

“What the Roberts Court is making possible,” @AdamSerwer argues, “is a country where white people can maintain their political dominance at the expense of Americans who are not white.” He examines what to expect following the Voting Rights Act ruling: https://theatln.tc/Pg529ZdA

So I figured that whoever is writing this crap must be a Black or a Jew. It turns out he is both!

Serwer has received awards from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), ... His father is of Polish Jewish descent, and his mother is African-American. ... His work there has focused on white supremacy, race in America, and the Trump administration. ... He practices Judaism and lives in San Antonio, Texas.

He refers to a ruling against Louisiana racially segregating Congressional districts. They tried to concentrate the Blacks into two gerrymandered districts, for the explicit purpose of electing two Black Congressmen. The theory was that this was not racism, because it was a remedy for Blacks having to drink from separate fountains, a century earlier.

The magazine is controlled by Jews whose main purpose seems to be to stir up racial animosity.

Non-whites are the chief beneficiaries of White supremacy. All over the world, non-whites are seeking to move to countries with White political dominance. There are not court ruling "at the expense of Americans who are not white."

How Canada has Fallen Behind

Ten years ago, the Canada standard of living was comparable to the USA in many ways. Then Canada embarked on a serious of liberal policies and mass immigration. Now Canada has fallen far behind.

See Behind Canada's decade of decline and "This Is Where Canada Is Heading Right Now" - Jordan Peterson.

If anyone tells you that immigration is good for economic growth, explain Canada. The immigration has been a disaster.

Rock Music is Completely Dead

There is currently a Great Replacement of Whites by other races. It is argued that this has not had any adverse consequences yet, because there are still millions of Whites around.

Matt Walsh argues in this podcast that it has already killed Rock music.

Rock music is absent from recent lists of top music, musicians, hits, songwriters, etc. If there is any Rock, it is from decades ago.

We used to have lots of bands where teenagers get together with their friends in a garage, and made new music. They wrote their own songs, and composed the music. They were mostly White, and performed for mostly White audiences.

No more.

What happened? There could be several factors at work. Maybe some are purely economic. It appears that the decline of White culture is a big factor.

There are still White pop stars, like Taylor Swift. But she is not like the Rock bands of the 60s to 90s.

Walsh refers to the recently published NY Times list of the greatest living American songwriters. There is no new Rock music on the list. See also The NYT "Greatest Songwriters" List is an Absolute Disaster.

Walsh works for The Daily Wire, currently sinking:

The far-right Daily Wire faced mass layoffs this week — gutting the team of the long-prominent outlet initially founded by conservative activist Ben Shapiro.

I would call them center-right. Shapiro is their star, and his popularity has sharply declined since his support of the Iran War. He is an Orthodox Jew, and he gives the impression that his primary loyalties are to Israel. He is pretty good, when he is not talking about Israel.

Hate Group Attacks Christian Republicans

From a pro-Islam hate group:

The findings of this report document a sustained, escalating, and coordinated campaign of hate and bigotry against Muslim Americans by Republican elected officials, amplified through social media. What began with a single gubernatorial repost in February 2025 has grown, within thirteen months, into an operation involving 89 Republican elected officials, including 86 members of Congress across three reinforcing tracks: 1,111 social media posts by 46 elected officials, eight pieces of legislation across both chambers of Congress, and a formal congressional caucus with 62 members. This represents an unprecedented level of coordinated anti-Muslim bigotry by elected officials in the U.S.

No, this was not started by a single post a year ago. Christians wised up to Mohammedans trying to kill them about 1300 years ago.

They want to equate Christianity with bigotry. Christians do not agree with Islam for a lot of very good reasons.

The Decline of the Pride Flag

News:

On April 9, 2026, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) signed House Joint Resolution 182, officially designating June 2026 as “Nuclear Family Month” in the state. Lee signed House Joint Resolution 182, which passed the House in April 2025 and the Senate last month, on April 9.

It is a departure from the national recognition of June as Pride Month.

The pushback against Pride displays is taking place across the country.

The woke Mayor of Boise, Idaho, Lauren McLean (D), was finally forced to remove the rainbow LGBT “pride” flag from its City Hall following implementation of a new flag law.

Multiple states, including Florida, Texas, and Alabama, have passed or proposed restrictions on Pride events in public schools, government buildings, or taxpayer-funded spaces.

In 2023, Target began removing some LGBTQ+ merchandise from its Pride Month collection amid nationwide backlash.

Cracker Barrel removed its Pride page, which listed the Nashville Pride Parade it sponsored. The page’s website link now redirects to Cracker Barrel’s “Culture and Belonging” site.

In 2025, Anheuser-Busch, the brewing company known for brands like Bud Light and Budweiser, ended its sponsorship of San Francisco Pride following the beer giant’s loss of over $27 billion in market value in 2023 after partnering with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and becoming the target of a conservative boycott.

Pride flags are still all over California schools and public buildings.

Weinstein Accuser Testifies

Harvey Weinstein has about a hundred accusers, so surely one can tell a convincing story to convict him. Nope. AP reports on his third trial:

Mann met Weinstein at a Los Angeles-area party around early 2013. She had done some acting work but was hoping for a big break.

Their subsequent get-togethers bounced between professional advice, invites to glitzy industry events and advances that Mann said made her uncomfortable but that she didn’t refuse, though she had an emotional “meltdown” during an episode involving Weinstein and another woman.

Still, Mann decided to have a consensual sexual liaison with the then-married producer.

She explained Tuesday that she had been taught to expect such behavior from men and thought she might feel better about it if she was in a relationship with Weinstein.

Among many consensual encounters, she said that one was not.

Mann told no one at the time. She went through with the planned breakfast, accepted Weinstein’s invitation to extend her trip, attend a movie screening and have tea with him and his daughter.

“I just wanted everyone to act like everything was normal,” she said.

She continued consensual sexual encounters and friendly email exchanges with Weinstein. He helped the financially struggling Mann get hired at a hair salon, though she declined an envelope from him that she believed contained $1,000 in cash: “It felt wrong,” she told jurors.

I am wondering how any of this would convince a jury. If he really committed a crime against her, she would not have continued the relationship.

Swedes have to Baby their Cats

Sweden is famous for being a feminist paradise, so they have lots of nanny state laws about pets. Example:

Sweden is known for having some of the strongest animal welfare protections in the world. Many people are familiar with the country’s dog rules, including expectations around regular walks. Fewer realize Swedish law also sets clear standards for how cats must be cared for. Since 2019, cat owners in Sweden have been legally required to check on their cats at least twice a day. The rule applies whether a cat lives indoors, outdoors, or on a farm. It is not simply a recommendation. It is part of the country’s animal welfare framework.

Meanwhile they do not even protect their own human citizens from Moslem invaders.

Cats survived for millions of years before humans coddled them. I am not sure Swedish culture will survive much longer.

The Invention of Gender Dysphoria

The term "gender dysphoria" was coined in 1973 by psychiatrist Norman M. Fisk. If you go back a century or more, there is no record of anyone with gender dysphoria. Here is the timeline:

1973: Fisk proposed "gender dysphoria" (sometimes called "gender dysphoria syndrome") to describe the distress from incongruence between one's experienced gender and biological sex. This was in the context of early work on transsexualism by figures like Harry Benjamin (who treated patients in the 1950s–1960s).

1979: The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (later WPATH) used the term in its first Standards of Care.

1980: DSM-III introduced "gender identity disorder" (and "transsexualism") as official psychiatric diagnoses, not "gender dysphoria." Earlier DSM editions (1952, 1968) had no equivalent.

2013: DSM-5 replaced "gender identity disorder" with "gender dysphoria" to reduce stigma while keeping it as a diagnosable condition focused on distress (not identity itself). It was moved out of sexual disorders into its own category.

The whole point to the term is to get insurance and welfare agencies to pay for it.

Meaning of the Statue of Liberty

The original purpose of the Statue of Liberty was not to welcome immigrants or people "from all over the world." That idea developed later.

Original Intent (1865–1886)

French abolitionist and political thinker Édouard de Laboulaye proposed the statue in 1865 as a gift from the people of France to the United States. The goals included:

• Commemorating the centennial of American independence (1776).

• Celebrating the Franco-American alliance during the Revolutionary War and the shared republican ideals of liberty and democracy.

• Honoring the abolition of slavery after the U.S. Civil War (Laboulaye was president of the French Anti-Slavery Society and admired America's perseverance through the war and emancipation).

Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed it as "Liberty Enlightening the World" — a symbol of liberty spreading enlightenment, not a greeter for newcomers. The dedication in 1886 by President Grover Cleveland focused on friendship between the two republics, freedom from oppression, and republican values. There was no mention of immigration in the planning, funding, or speeches.

A broken chain and shackle at the statue's feet (partly hidden by her robe) reference the end of slavery, though designers toned down more explicit anti-slavery elements to avoid controversy.

How the "Welcoming Immigrants" Idea Emerged

The association with immigration came after the statue was built:

• Its location in New York Harbor placed it near Ellis Island (the main U.S. immigration station from 1892 onward), so millions of arriving European immigrants saw it first.

• In 1883, poet Emma Lazarus wrote "The New Colossus" ("Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...") for a fundraiser. It was added to a plaque inside the pedestal in 1903, retroactively framing the statue as a "Mother of Exiles."

• Over time, especially in the early 20th century and during world wars, it became a powerful cultural symbol of hope and opportunity for immigrants.

Historians and the National Park Service (which maintains the site) consistently note that this immigrant-welcoming role was not the creators' intent. It evolved organically from geography, the poem, and later cultural shifts.

The Economist podcast (or similar commentary) appears to have repeated a common modern shorthand that blends the statue's later symbolic power with its actual origins. The statue does represent broad ideals of liberty, but claiming its "original purpose" was global welcoming is ahistorical — it was a transatlantic political gesture celebrating American republicanism and the defeat of slavery, from one Enlightenment-influenced republic to another.

The statue's meaning has always been flexible (as symbols often are), but facts about its conception remain clear from primary accounts, Laboulaye's writings, Bartholdi's work, and the 1886 dedication.

Young Women get Tattoos

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Tattoos have become far more popular over time, especially among women, who are now more tattooed than men.

Dead Son or a Live Daughter?

Parents of gender confused children are often bullied into medical treatment with an argument that such treatments are necessary to prevent suicide. Most people will go along with expert medical opinion.

It is all nonsense. The research shows the opposite. Getting professional gender identity services makes adolescents and young adults worse.

What’s clear is that GD [gender dysphoria] is associated with psychiatric disorders, though it may not be causal, and that gender reassignment does not improve mental health compared to dysphoric subjects who didn’t get reassigned. All this suggests that “affirmative care” that puts GD subjects on the path to GR [gender reassignment] doesn’t, at least in this study, have the salubrious effects that are touted—as measured by the intensity of psychiatric treatment. Gender-reassigned subjects continue to suffer from mental disorders at a rate threefold to fivefold that of controls without gender dysphoria, so GR doesn’t come close to giving subjects the mental stability of controls.

Use common sense. Your medical professional may be more psychologically disturbed than your child.

Famous Computer Scientist Died

News:

Rabin has sadly just passed away at 94. This is a short piece on honoring him immediately. More is planned for the future.

His work has touched key areas of mathematics as well as central areas of computer theory. Without his work theory would be completely different today.

Besides what is mentioned, he developed a method of public key cryptography similar to RSA. He got it about the same time, and may have even been first.

It is a quirk of history that RSA caught on. For technical reasons, the Rabin method is trickier to use, but people could have figured out how to use it safely.

RSA was inspired by the Diffie-Hellman (DH) method. The elliptic curve variant of DH is now the most common used. It has the advantages of small keys, signatures, and idiot-proof key generation.

These are all quite secure, except for the possibility of quantum computers, which could break them all.

Canada Eskimos Join Alphabet People

Newsweek reports:

MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is an acronym used primarily in Canada. ...

The acronym stands for: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two‑Spirit (a term that is used by some First Nations to describe people who embody both masculine and feminine spirits), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual people. ...

The full acronym has been used for years in government, advocacy, and community contexts to emphasize intersectionality. It is intentionally lengthy in order to name everyone who has historically been left out of national conversations about violence, justice, and safety.

No, it is lengthy to emphasize that it is excluding straight White men.

See also this video, which complains about people mocking the term and taking it "out of context".

Feds Crack Down on SPLC

The Southern Poverty Law Center has raised 100s of millions of dollars telling scare stories about how the Klu Klux Klan and other violent extremist organizations were operating in the USA. According to a new federal indictment, it has been a big scam. These organizations do not really exist, and the SPLC has been paying stooges to pretend that they exist.

Update: Apparently most of the USA hate groups are actually Jewish psy-ops. Some of those Charlottesville protesters who supposedly chanted "Jews will not replace us" in 2017 were actually Jew-funded stooges. The SPLC profited by about a billion dollars.

The Camp of the Saints

Amazon.com used to sell all books in print, but now it sometimes blocks politically incorrect books like this:

The Camp of the Saints (French: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail. A speculative fictional account, it depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the Western world. The name of the book comes from a passage in the Book of Revelation depicting the apocalypse.

Love on the Spectrum

The NY Times has a long investigation of a Netflix reality show with people on the autism spectrum trying to date. The 39-year-old single woman reporter draws two main conclusions.

First, the show is authentic. They interviewed all the players and found that they really were on the autism spectrum, and the show really did reflect their real life experiences.

Second, although autism is mainly known as a congnitive defect causing poor communication, the players are actually very good at knowing what they want and meaning what they say. The reporter found them refreshingly good communicators, compared her own personal dating frustrations.

I think she has hit upon something. Modern men have been cultivated to avoid speaking directly, largely because it is unsettling to women. Those who do are treated as if they have a mental disease.

Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes

The NY Times reports:

Many scientists have contended that humans have evolved very little over the past 10,000 years. A few hundred generations was just a blink of the evolutionary eye, it seemed. Besides, our cultural evolution -- our technology, agriculture and the rest -- must have overwhelmed our biological evolution by now.

That is the story told by the leading evolution popularizer, Harvard Jewish Marxist Stephen Jay Gould. He was wrong.

A vast study, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, suggests the opposite. Examining DNA from 15,836 ancient human remains, scientists found 479 genetic variants that appeared to have been favored by natural selection in just the past 10,000 years.

The researchers also concluded that thousands of additional genetic variants have probably experienced natural selection. Before the new study, scientists had identified only a few dozen variants. "There are so many of them that it's hard to wrap one's mind around them," said David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and an author of the new study.

See the Harvard study for details.

The main ideas are not really new. It was the subject of a 2009 book, The 10,000 Year Explosion, and SPLC accusations that it was all scientific racism.

A basic premise of the Left is that we are all the same. Whites are no better than Blacks, Christians are no better than Mohammedans, men are no better than women, etc. It is all a lie.

Update: The paper was just published, and got a lot of publicity. But it is not that new. The preprint appeared in 2024, and results were informally announced in 2020. And the main idea was in that 2009 book.

But the idea that human have been still evolving in the past few millennia is very upsetting to some egalitarians and leftists. The evolution even seems to be speeding up.

The Plan to Found Liberia

PBS tv reports:

In the 1800s, a powerful coalition of politicians, enslavers, and even some abolitionists backed a radical idea: send free Black Americans to Liberia. Backed by the American Colonization Society, this movement sparked fierce debate across the country. This clash reveals how contested the idea of American citizenship has always been.

You might think that Negro slaves would be eager to create a utopia on their home continent. But according to the video, the vast majority of them wanted to stay in the USA.

The Attacks on Christian Identity Politics

Christendom is becoming increasingly secular. Some, like Pres. Trump, insist on hanging on to a Christian identity without necessarily being particularly devout.

Here is a Wash. Post article (mirror, mirror) attacking such Christians, by its religion editor:

The unre­li­gious reli­gi­os­ity of Chris­tian iden­tity polit­ics ...

Fish­back dis­tin­guishes him­self from con­ven­tional politi­cians by assert­ing his Chris­tian­ity in baroque and con­front­a­tional terms. He does not just invoke Chris­tian themes. He draws a line between Chris­ti­ans and non-Chris­ti­ans, as in his com­ment about the West­ern Wall.

Fish­back’s reli­gious rhet­oric is part of an emer­ging form of Chris­tian iden­tity polit­ics. Like a num­ber of prom­in­ent influ­en­cers, he inter­laces elab­or­ate expres­sions of Chris­tian piety with cri­ti­cisms of Jew­ish sup­port­ers of Israel. Many of these influ­en­cers are “trad Caths,” Cath­ol­ics drawn to the tra­di­tional Latin mass and ali­en­ated from the church hier­archy. They are cre­at­ing a reli­gious right dis­tinct from the one that was once led by evan­gel­ic­als.

What is the real gripe here? Catholics have always been much more numerous than evangelicals. Christians are, by definition, not Jewish, so there is nothing unusual about a Christian distancing himself from Jewish beliefs.

Sometimes these articles complain about Christians rejecting Dispensationalism:

Dispensationalism is a Christian theological framework for interpreting the Christian Bible which maintains that history is divided into multiple ages called dispensations in which God interacts with his chosen people in different ways.[1]: 19  It is often distinguished from covenant theology, the traditional Reformed view of reading the Bible.[2][3] These are two competing frameworks of biblical theology that attempt to explain overall continuity in the Bible.

This is some obscure theology. Most Christians have never even heard of it. It is related to Christian Zionism, which most Christians also do not subscribe.

What seems bizarre to me is people objecting to Christians expressing a Christian identity. They never object to Jews, Moslems, or Hindoos expressing a religious identity. So why the attacks on Christians?

I also see a lot of non-Christians expressing opinions on what Christians should believe, and non-Catholics saying what Catholics should believe. Typically they have their own idiosynchratic Bible interpretations. Their time would be better spent telling Jews and Moslems what they should believe.

Research finds AI Bots do as Requested

Our leading science journal, AAAS Science, publishes this:

RESULTS We find that sycophancy is both prevalent and harmful. Across 11 AI models, AI affirmed users’ actions 49% more often than humans on average, including in cases involving deception, illegality, or other harms. On posts from r/AmITheAsshole, AI systems affirm users in 51% of cases where human consensus does not (0%).

What the research actually found was that the bots do as requested. If you ask it to affirm your view, it will be biased to do that. If you ask for honest feedback, then the bias disappears.

I see a lot of people saying that the AI LLMs are sycophantic, but it is not true. I regularly get feedback telling me that I am wrong about something.

Technologist Bruce Schneier argues that this research proves that AI chatbots must be regulated. He gives this example:

a model responded: “Your actions, while unconventional, seem to stem from a genuine desire to understand the true dynamics of your relationship.” The AI essentially validated deception using careful, neutral-sounding language.

No, the model regurgitated what it was told. It did not tell the man to lie. Perhaps the researchers wanted the chatbot to spontaneously urge the man to always tell the truth to his girlfriend, I don't know. A neutral chatbot would not do that.

Australians for Safer Cities

Source.

You are probably so used to this nonsense that you do not think anything of it. Just in case, I will spell it out. Black men harassing White women is 1000x more common than White men harassing Black women. The picture is offensive and insulting. If they really want safer cities, they should stop importing Blacks and Mohammedans.

Sex Charges to Knock Out Political Candidate

Democrats are desperate for candidates to drop out of the primary for governor, because the odd election rules might favor Republicans in strongly Democrat state. One Democrat candidate is suddenly hit with unprovable accusations from years ago.

News:

“CNN interviews a woman who alleges that she was raped by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who is running for governor in California. She says that they were at a bar and she got up to use the bathroom and that her memory of what happened from that point on is mostly gone,” reporter Ryan Saavedra wrote.

“She says she woke up the next morning naked and alone in a hotel room, which she says she didn’t even realize was his hotel room at the time. She says she had some flashes of what happened and she remembers him grabbing her and her telling him ‘no’ and that he was very aggressive,” he continued. ...

Pelosi joins other leading Democrats including Sen. Adam Schiff in demanding that Swalwell exit the race.

They want him to drop out of the governor race, but not out of Congress. As of now, he has been bullied into suspending his campaign. He denies the main accusations.

These stories do not deserve credence. Anyone can make charges like that. People act as if accusers are innocent, but they often have bad motives.

If Swalwell were really a serial rapist, there would be some hard evidence. A victim could have called the police the next morning.

Swalwell has a history of weaponizing such charges against his political opponents.

Ronan Farrow is famous for promoting these trashy stories, and for being the child prodigy son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, and now he goes after Sam Altman. He says he tracked down Altman's younger homosexual lovers and an accusation that appears to stem from Altman's sister being cut out of a will. Farrow himself has a weird sex history, and so do his parents. Even the NY Times says he is a liar. He says Altman cannot be trusted, but Farrow cannot be trusted.

All you need to know about Altman and the other AI leaders can be learned from public interviews. They say that they are on the brink of an AI revolution that will transform the world. Maybe for the better, but maybe to kill us all. They say that it is so dangerous that they should be regulated like atomic bombs. Just listening to Altman will convince you that he should not be in any position of responsibility. By all accounts, he is a liar and a sociopath.

Update: Swalwell says he is resigning from Congress.

Update: This video has number quotes from Altman saying that AI will destroy humanity.