The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (No. 92)

Untimely Thoughts on a World in Transition

*I hope to be back next week with another essay for my series on marriage. The next proposed essay will be titled “Postmodern Marriage.”

THE GOOD

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO?!?! Scientists Discover Sperm Seem To Bypass a Fundamental Law of Physics.

THIS IS UTTERLY FASCINATING, Fatherhood Dramatically Rewires Your Brain, Scans Reveal, AND IT ALSO CONFIRMS SOMETHING I WROTE IN MY ESSAY—”SOMETHING HAPPENED”—FROM A FEW MONTHS AGO:

MEDICINE/HEALTH ROUND UP:

• Scientists Reverse Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice With Impressive New Treatment.

• Groundbreaking New Compound Could Treat the World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease.

• Amazon Scorpion Venom Shows Promise as Next-Generation Breast Cancer Drug.

• Eli Lilly says weight-loss pill a candidate for speedy approval under new US program.

• The “Freshman 15” Isn’t a Myth: Scientists Reveal Why It’s So Common.

I CAN’T SPEAK FOR OTHER PEOPLE, BUT I PREFER SMALL CITIES TO LARGE ONES: The rise of the small city: Population growth in the U.S. has moved beyond urban cores

PETER BERKOWITZ: U.S. Declaration of Independence on anniversary: Challenges and principles

ARCHEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY ROUND UP:

• 7,000-Year-Old DNA Rewrites the Story of the “Neolithic Revolution.”

• Ancient Bible breakthrough: Hidden pages of St. Paul’s letters revealed after centuries

• A Man Was Walking Through a Field—and Found a Massive Viking Gold Hoard.

• Man’s everyday dog walk uncovers ‘incredible’ relic dating back millennia

WELL, WELL, WELL: Former BLM activist goes scorched earth on ‘scam’ group, insists systemic racism in US isn’t real.

SWEET: In a Groundbreaking First, Scientists Found a Way to Unlock Your Long-Lost Childhood Memories.

PROGRESS—Canadian Style? Alberta will vote in the fall on whether to start legal process for separating from Canada. “The proposed question would ask: ‘Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?’”

MORE FREEDOM IS A GOOD THING:

• Texas Poised To Lead New Natural Gas Pipeline Boom

• Tennessee Leaders Join Campaign To Ban State Property Tax

BEST NEWS I’VE HEARD ALL DAY: Scott Pelley Claims Bari Weiss Is ‘Murdering’ News Program ’60 Minutes’

GOOD ON HER: Adventurer becomes first British woman to cross the Atlantic by hydrogen balloon.

LAISSEZ-FAIRE IS WHAT WE WANT: The thing Anthropic’s repugnant and overbearing “safety controls” on their new model demonstrates, conclusively I think, is that if we allow one or two companies to control all AI research and development, we will also be giving those companies veto power over what thoughts we are allowed to think, what information we are allowed to know, what conversations we are allowed to have. The only solution to this is an open, fiercely competitive market where customers can freely choose to leave when a company behaves like this.

• FOR THOSE WITHOUT X: X-cancel.

EUROPEANS TRAVELING AROUND AMERICA IS JUST WHAT AMERICA NEEDED: Europeans in the US for the World Cup Are Celebrating American Culture—Specifically, Red America’s Culture. I couldn’t help but notice that all these Europeans driving around being charmed by the U.S. are celebrating the very things that Leftists have the most contempt for.

AGREED: Elon Musk is a Genius — and a Litmus Test.

THE BAD

NEPO BABIES OF THE WORLD UNITE! You have nothing to lose but your million dollar pacifiers: Hasan Piker Calls Musk a ’F***ing Failure as Leftist Meltdown Over SpaceX IPO Intensifies.

SOCIALISM IS BAD IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. There is nothing noble or laudable about the forced redistribution of wealth: Make of this what you will.

THE FOLLOWING IS AN IRON LAW OF POLITICAL PHYSICS: WHERE THERE IS A WELFARE STATE THERE WILL BE FRAUD:

• New Study Warns Obamacare Enrollment Fraud Could Cost Taxpayers Billions In 2026

THE WELFARE STATE IS IMMORAL AND SHOULD BE ABOLISHED: US Government Overpaid Welfare And Medicare Recipients By $186 Billion Last Year

WHERE THERE IS A WELFARE STATE, THERE WILL BE FRAUD. It’s a political law of nature:

• Virginia Wrote Off $300M In Unemployment Overpayments, Only Recovered $6M

• Nevada Congressional Candidates Call For Fraud Enforcement, Healthcare Aid

• I’m Ohio’s state auditor — Medicaid fraud is not just a Washington problem. Audits found payments to dead people, prison inmates and residents enrolled in multiple states.

IT’S AS THOUGH THE FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS EXIST SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING RAIDED AND RANSACKED. The welfare state will destroy America: SBA Head Says Agency Found $200B In Fraudulent Pandemic Loans

THERE IS ALMOST ALWAYS A PHILOSOPHY BEHIND THESE MASS SHOOTINGS THAT CAN BE SUMMED UP IN ONE WORD: NIHILISM: What the San Diego Mosque Shooters Believed.

ONE WORD . . . WHY? 2 scientists charged with bringing deactivated mpox virus into the US and lying to authorities.

NOT GOOD: ‘Unprecedented Threat:’ Routine Maintenance Found an IED at an Alabama Dam.

I’M STARTING TO GET A BAD FEELING ABOUT HOW THINGS ARE GOING IN THE UNITED STATES. And it’s mostly the things most people don’t see: America stopped building ships. Now it can’t build a navy

CHINA WATCH:

• China-Linked Group’s Socialist ‘Liberation Centers’ Expanding Across The Country

• Satellite Photos Reveal China’s ‘Active Defense Web’ for Nuclear War.

• Unruly teenagers: Small Pacific nation facing the cost after cutting ‘deal’ with Beijing

• ‘Trump’s Donroe Doctrine’: China tries tightening its grip on the Panama Canal

DECLINE AND FALL—ENGLISH SYLE

• Freeborn No More? The Crime and Policing Bill and the Slow Death of English Liberty.

GREAT BRITAIN IS DYING. That it is committing civilizational suicide is self-evidently true. The British ruling class (both Laborites and conservatives) is the most corrupt in the western world (well, except that of Canada, of course). The Henry Nowak story is a symbol of everything that is wrong with western “Progressivism.” Nowak was stabbed five times by Vickrum Digwa with an eight-inch, ceremonial, Sikh knife. When the police arrived, Digwa falsely accused Nowak of “racism.” Naturally, the police believed Digwa and then arrested and handcuffed Nowak. He bled out and died shortly thereafter.

• Henry Nowak Killing Highlights Two-Tier Standard on Identity, Policing, and Justice in Britain.

• The merciless mistreatment of Henry Nowak.

• How America’s Racial Politics Poisoned Britain.

• Henry Nowak Case: Police Admit DEI Training Shaped Disgraceful Decision to Handcuff Dying Teen.

• Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit.

• The Martyrdom of Henry Nowak. And the parallels with St George of Fentanyl.

• What Killed Henry Nowak: One Murderer and All the Malignancy of Collective Self-Hate.

TO PLAY THE “RACE CARD” IS YOUR “GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD.” That seems clear now:

“TAKE THE KNEE” IS NOT MEANT TO BE A SYMBOLIC GESTURE OF SUPPORT. It represents the ideological terms of our surrender.

YOU CAN’T HATE ENGLAND ENOUGH: “I Was Sacked From Police for Questioning Islam.”

HYPOCRITE! Ford flew to Phoenix on a private jet: Harrison Ford urges ASU graduates to prevent ‘mass extinction’ by fighting climate change.

I’M PRETTY SURE THAT’S THE WRONG QUESTION: Who Surrendered Feminism?

I BLAME FEMINISM AND AI. How ‘bout you? US Faces ‘Existential Crisis’ As Fertility Rate Continues To Decline

IS CHINA FUNDING LEFT-WING PROTESTS IN THE UNITED STATES? Inquiring minds want to know: ‘Just stunning’: Kevin O’Leary sounds alarm as he ‘uncovered something far bigger than I ever expected’

OH, OK: Dems call lack of menstrual leave ‘economic violence’ in push for new federal law

PERFORMATIVE IN THE SERVICE OF LEFT-WING IDEOLOGY: MS NOW Host Feels ‘Deep Unease’ About America’s 250th Celebrations, Cites Our ‘Racist Past’.

DISMANTLING THE DEEP STATE: Social Security Administration Fires 7,100 Staffers In Historic Cuts

THE UGLY

IDEOLOGICALLY/PSYCHOLOGICALLY DRIVEN MURDER AND IT ALMOST ALWAYS STARTS IN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS: Trans Killer Reveals How Gender Surgery Pushed Her To Execute Parents

PRETTY SURE THIS PEDO IS NOT GOING TO ENJOY HIS TIME IN PRISON: I Love Being A Pedo’: Detroit Doctor Pleads Guilty In Child Porn Case

CRIMINAL PUNISHMENTS IN THIS COUNTRY ARE FAR TOO LIBERAL: Man Gets 33 Years For Sexually Exploiting Over 140 Children

WHAT DO WE SAY OF A NATION WHOSE INTELLECTUAL ELITE SUPPORTS THE DRUGGING AND MUTILATION OF CHILDREN? Detransitioner Outlines Policies To Prevent The Medical Transition Of Minors

. . . and THE BEAUTIFUL

Mozart’s Lacrimosa from the Requiem in D minor is surely one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed. The music represents Mozart’s deepest reflection on, and expression of, grief. If grief is love with no place to go, the Lacrimosa, which translates literally as “tearful” or “weeping,” captures it beautifully.

Have a great week!