Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
This week’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court, in cases involving state laws that ban boys from girls’ sports, may prove to be a decisive turning point in the surreal political struggle over gender ideology. The battle is not won, but the momentum has shifted. Credit Justice Samuel Alito with the question that fully exposed … Read more
God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones that I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference. Now that I’m older (but refuse to grow up) here’s what I’ve discovered… ONE – I started out with nothing, and I still have … Read more
Many news organizations carried the story of the release of Bar Kuperstein two years after he had been kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. Kuperstein was a young security guard at the Nova Festival, the music festival targeted by Hamas for its fat genocidal possibilities, with sides of rape, torture, and kidnapping. After taking some … Read more
Every so often, a cultural moment exposes something far deeper than a policy disagreement. That happened again recently when comments from Stranger Things actress Maya Hawke resurfaced online — remarks she made several years ago but which gained renewed attention amid the show’s continued popularity. Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2022, … Read more
Big Fertility markets itself as a compassionate branch of the medical world that exists to help infertile couples — but instead it facilitates a return to harem logic. History is littered with powerful men who collected women the way empires collect territory, for the express purpose of producing as many children as possible. The dehumanizing … Read more
Taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions more on completely ineffective daycare than even Somalis have been able to pilfer. The Trump administration announced it is pausing all child-care payments to Minnesota in light of explosive revelations about Somali-saturated fraud rings siphoning billions from federal welfare programs. State officials in Ohio, where the second-largest Somali population … Read more
I am a confirmed hater of New Year’s Eve parties and a skeptic of New Year’s festivities in general. There is nothing more dispiriting than the spectacle of people pretending to have a good time on New Year’s Eve, except possibly the less crowded tragedy of people pretending to be madly in love on Valentine’s … Read more
New research strongly suggests teachers’ unions are driving the skyrocketing administrative bloat that’s sucking resources away from classrooms. By diverting additional funding toward hiring more people, they starve effective educators of the raises and support they need, all to pad their own power structures. Unions benefit enormously from inflating the number of employees in the … Read more
Merry Christmas!
If you want to know why Donald Trump and his three-legged psychedelic pinball machine of an administration are on the wrong side of Americans when it comes to economic performance, consider this interesting fact: Grocery inflation is more than twice as bad right now as it was in the closing days of Joe Biden’s presidency, … Read more
When it comes to online safety, parents must parent, not look to the government. The politically engaged members of Generation Z have undertaken to instruct the nation as to the proper regulation of technologies such as smartphones, social media, and artificial intelligence. Some argue that lawmakers have failed to mitigate the social and psychological damage … Read more
Criminals are, no surprise, harder to catch than law-abiding people. If you will indulge my revisiting an old theme for a new purpose: There is a reason—a bad, dumb, bureaucratically self-serving reason—that U.S. gun control efforts are mainly focused on sporting goods shops and the people who do business with them. The reason is that … Read more
AT A wedding reception I attended recently, the mother of the bride, tired but happy, rose to offer a toast. I was struck by one point she went out of her way to emphasize — namely, how overjoyed she was that the guests who had flown in from out of town included not just her … Read more
The portion that Americans spend on food has fallen steeply over the last century. Let’s set aside the controversy over what Walmart’s shrinkflation of its annual Thanksgiving feast bundle might suggest for the recent trajectory of grocery prices. The good news for which we can be thankful is that the share of their incomes that … Read more
I Left Catholicism Because of Church Scandals… Also see “Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis,” by Bishop Robert Barron (161-page PDF) Related PostsLeaders Aren’t Born, They’re Made | Into the Breach The Great Lie About John F. Kennedy, The Bishops, And The American Catholic Church Good … Read more
Average family health insurance premiums rose 6% in 2025, nearing $27,000, underscoring consistent increases and warning of more hikes ahead. Higher healthcare spending, including increased hospital and drug prices, is driving up the cost of coverage, according to an annual survey from the nonprofit KFF. For most American families, $27,000 is a lot of money. … Read more
Steubenville, Ohio — In this industrial, Rust Belt city in northeastern Ohio, just across the Ohio River from West Virginia and mere miles from the Pennsylvania border, something special is happening. No, it isn’t the idyllic Nutcracker Village displays that adorn downtown at Christmastime. Nor is it the latest tribute to the town’s most famous … Read more
The conventional career track of high school, to the glorified credentialing programs we now call colleges, to a narrow sector of the workforce that one has ostensibly been prepared for has never seemed like a good one for all people. It raises a barrier to entry for many jobs, forces life-altering choices on people without … Read more
When I tell people I go to Christendom College, the reaction is almost always the same: a raised eyebrow, a polite smile, and then, “Wait, that super strict Catholic school?” Yep. That’s the one. To be honest, I kind of thought the same thing before I enrolled. I wasn’t raised Catholic. I’m a convert who … Read more
Genesee River Watershed: Har-Go Farms Wonderful people Also see “Har-Go Farms in Pavilion with a new twist on organic“ Related PostsButter Meat Co. Dairies in Trouble: Borden Makes Surprise Bankruptcy Filing The Buffalo Blame Game De Blasio’s Domino’s outrage sums up why businesses are fleeing NYC New York City has liabilities equaling $63,100 … Read more
Chicago is at 338 murders so far this year and over 1,500 shot. Why? It’s a mystery. Mayor Brandon Johnson recently claimed that “jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities.” He praised Joanne Chesimard aka Assata Shakur, a racist terrorist who murdered a police officer and … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Father Of Murder Victim Lets Loose On Soft-On-Crime Policies At NC House Hearing In emotionally fraught testimony Monday, Steve Federico, father of a young woman who was brutally murdered by a black career criminal in South Carolina, pleaded with Democrats to stop protecting dangerous criminals with soft-on-crime policies. The House Judiciary … Read more
Genesee River Watershed: HaR-Go Farms, Pavilion, NY Related PostsN.Y. Can’t Teach Kids To Read on $30,000 a Year St. Joseph of Cupertino The Reluctant Saint Subsidies Distort Market Signals Escape from New York: Democrats Embrace Socialist for New Mayor The Civic Duties of Hasidic Schools
Did anyone ever really believe that men could become women? ‘Tipping Point’ author Malcolm Gladwell helped answer that question when he recently apologized for publicly asserting that men could change sex and fairly compete against women in sports because he was “cowed”. No one bothered to follow up with the more interesting question, ‘What is … Read more
The founder of Weber’s Resupply, a company that specializes in slow-fashion outdoor apparel, had a message for the bride-to-be who asked for 15 free Colorado ski sweaters to give to her girlfriends during her upcoming pre-wedding trip to Aspen. Those sweaters retail for $95 apiece, and Meredith Weber had no intention of giving away more … Read more