The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 54)
March 22. 2023
Next week I will be publishing a long-form essay titled “Communism Comes to America.” I think you will find it very interesting and not at all what you might expect.
The Good
THIS IS WONDERFUL NEWS: Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer
SMILE OF THE WEEK: Sugar Land toddler beams seeing mother clearly for the first time: 'Can you see me?'
JOHN GALT, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Scientists: Selfishness can lead to fair outcomes that benefit all.
FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HER LOOKS, TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEEDS: The Case for Love Socialism. “Shall we tolerate this outrageous situation where some people monopolise the attention and attraction of the opposite sex (or the same sex – we, progressives, don’t judge) while the great majority fight for scraps? Surely, it is not just and it is not equitable that a small minority of those with an unearned privilege (the good looks) should lord it over the aesthetically poor masses. The tiny rooting class greedily takes the lot, while the wanking classes are consigned to… well, you get the picture.”
A LITTLE SIN EVERY NOW AND THEN, AIN’T SUCH A BAD THING: A world free from sin.
QUICK, WATCH THIS VIDEO. Very cool:
GOOD ON BAD: GLENN REYNOLD (AKA INSTAPUNDIT) HAS WRITTEN AN EXCELLENT OP-ED ON THE FASCISM INHERENT IN ESG (I.E., ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE): Privatizing Fascism: How Team Biden is getting more and more corporations to do its bidding.
DOES THIS HAPPEN BEFORE OR AFTER WE ABOLISH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION? The Department of Homeland Security Just Turned 20: It’s Time to Abolish It.
HIGHLY DOUBTFUL. We’re not interested in marching through the institutions. That would be a fool’s errand. We’re interested in the #JustWalkAway option. Simple, clean, non-violent. And we know already that the #JustWalkAway option works: Can the Right Make a Long Countermarch Through the Institutions?
PRE-APOCALYPSE MUST READ. For those of you who lack a sense of humor, let me just say that this is satire: “Maybe it’s age, but I’m starting to warm up to the God of the Old Testament big-time.”
FOR THOSE WITH EYES TO SEE, YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT WE ARE LIVING THROUGH A PERIOD OF CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING AND RISING SEAS. Oh, wait . . .
SAVE THE CHILDREN. Important essay. Make sure to read: I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
LEFTISTS HAVE ALWAYS LOVED ALL THINGS SCANDINAVIAN . . . UNITL NOW: Norway puts brakes on pediatric sex change experiment, places severe restrictions on hormone therapies and surgeries for minors.
WHAT CAN’T IT CURE? New Study: Lifelong Marriage Reduces Risk of Dementia.
The Bad
THEY LIED, PEOPLE DIED: 10 myths told by COVID experts — and now debunked
FREEDOM’S DECLINE AND FALL—U.S. EDITION: We're No. 25: US slips again in annual global economic freedom index 'amid mounting deficit and debt burdens'
THE DAY OF RECKONING COMETH: From Concerning to Terrifying: 7 Horrible Milestones on Horizon for Bloated Federal Budget
YUP. The Deep State gets a little bit deeper every single day. We currently live in what Alexis de Tocqueville referred to as a “soft despotism.” How much longer until it becomes a “hard despotism” like that of China. We’re certainly moving in that direction: More Cite Gov't as Top U.S. Problem; Inflation Ranks Second
REGULATIONS ARE KILLING CHARITY. Government hates the competition: How government red tape is strangling charities