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May 7, 2024
VITAMIN D UPDATE: Unveiling Vitamin D’s Hidden Power Against Cancer. The gut microbiome is involved, too, so maybe I should have tagged this as “microbiome news.”
I HAD MISSED THIS: Jewel Shocks Fans By Slaying Undercover Karaoke in Dive Bar. It’s very sweet.
DISPATCHES FROM THE HOUSE OF STEPHANOPOULOS: ABC “News” Fires Its Woke DEI Hire “News Chief.”
They’re pretending she left of her own accord. But there were reports a week ago that ABC “News” was going to get rid of her, so you tell me.
She wasn’t just a DEI hire. She is literally made of DEI atoms.
ABC News President Kim Godwin, who touted diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), is reportedly on the chopping block, according to CNN.Debra OConnell, who was appointed in February to oversee the network, is currently conducting a leadership review as she has allegedly been appalled by Godwin’s management and leadership style, sources told CNN. She has reportedly failed to replace key positions and has caused anxiety to circulate among staff.
And now she’s “retiring.” Retiring under a cloud of failure and scandal, that is.
“Keep an eye on this. Wanna bet that a lawsuit won’t be far behind?,” Ed Morrissey adds.
UNCLE SAM’S LATEST MANDATE: Opinion: Automatic Emergency Braking Mandate is Misguided Overreach.
JOHN LUCAS: “As I type this, the President is reading a speech to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day. He is now urging us to ‘never forget’ the Holocaust and other outrages perpetrated against the Jewish people. This same man has attempted to micromanage Israel’s conduct of its defense against the Hamas murderers and has followed through by cutting off or limiting ammunition supplies to Israel. Never forget? Pay no attention to what this man says. Watch what he does — and does not do.”
READER FAVORITE: Gildan Men’s Crew T-Shirts, Multipack. #CommissionEarned
I NEED A BIGGER GUN SAFE: First Look: Wilson Combat Tactical Ultralight Rifle.
C. BRADLEY THOMPSON: Who Will Defend Jonathan Yudelman?
HIGHER EDUCATION NEEDS REFORM, AND NOW IS THE TIME. On my Substack, the Eternally Radical Idea, today I survey the chaos that has embroiled college campuses across the US and beyond, doing my best to call balls and strikes between protected and unprotected political expression in the midst of an absolute hailstorm of protests and demonstrations.
“Not coincidentally, trust in higher education and respect for it have plummeted in recent years, while the cost has absolutely exploded. Someone attending Columbia today might expect to pay as much as $95,000 a year when including room and board. And where has this gargantuan increase in cost per student gone? It has overwhelmingly gone to the ranks of administrators and bureaucrats that have created the orthodoxy, the free speech problems, and the gross double standards in the first place.”
UPDATE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARIES APPROPRIATELY, COMRADES: End of an Era: Boy Scouts of America Officially Changes Name to Embrace Inclusivity After 114 Years.
The “woke virus” continues to spread in America.
The Boy Scouts of America has announced a major rebranding as it transitions to “Scouting America,” marking the first name change in its 114-year legacy.
The move is part of the organization’s bid to distance itself from its troubled past marred by a torrent of sexual abuse claims and subsequent bankruptcy while simultaneously embracing “inclusivity.”
Ban Erase all the things!
SIRI, WHAT IS “THE STREISAND EFFECT?” Google Banned Trump Ad Targeting Black Voters.
“CONSPIRACY THEORY” NOW JUST MEANS “A LITTLE AHEAD OF THE NEWS CYCLE”: Monday’s Conspiracy Theory About Joe Biden Is Tuesday’s Fact.
SHOCKER: Disney LIED About Star Wars. “It’s really easy to show a profit when you include revenues but conveniently leave out major expenses.”
UPDATE (From Ed): One easy way for Disney to generate some quick revenue on its investment? Release the original versions of the first three films! But as James Joyner wrote on Sunday in “The Real Star Wars Films,” “I’m honestly shocked Disney hasn’t already done that, given that there are surely millions of folks who would shell out to own the originals.”
Related: Iger: We’re Reducing Output Because Audiences Realized We Serve Up C***.
CAMPUS PROTESTERS PRETEND TO SPEAK FOR STUDENTS, BUT THEY DON’T: Poll: 81% of College Students Want Protesters Held Accountable. “A majority also said they oppose the protest tactics: 67% say occupying campus buildings is unacceptable and 58% say it’s not acceptable to refuse a university’s order to disperse. Another 90% said blocking pro-Israel students from parts of campus is unacceptable.”
Plus: “And that’s after more than six months of radical campus actions. The pro-Hamas fringe isn’t even convincing their most sympathetic and proximal cohort, let alone anyone else.”
BLUE CITY BLUES: Given The Chance, Austin Voters Escape Austin. “Three areas voted to disannex from Austin after saying they’re paying for services they don’t receive.”
HOCHUL APOLOGIZES FOR DROPPING THE MASK: Gov. Hochul says she ‘misspoke’ when she said some ‘Black kids’ don’t know the word ‘computer.’
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul apologized this week after saying there are Black kids in the Bronx who don’t know what the word “computer” means.
Hochul made the remarks during an address at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, California.
“Now what we have is the money to build a phenomenal super computer that is gonna be accessible to the researchers in New York, college students, will attract more federal grants, and this is how we lay down the mark,” Hochul said. “No state has done this. In fact, I talk to a lot of other people who say, ‘I wish my governor had thought of that first.’ I say, ‘No no, this is New York. We like to be first,’ with all due respect to you from other states.”
“It’s sort of our attitude,” Hochul continued. “We will be the best, we will be the first, and I want others to follow, because right now we have young Black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word ‘computer’ is. They don’t know. They don’t know these things.”
President Joe “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids” Biden could not be reached for comment.
THIS EXPLAINS THE COLAVITA TRUCKS IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE: Olive oil could help reduce risk of dying from dementia, Harvard study says.
CORN, POPPED: I Dare You. “Donald Trump is now daring the judge in his Manhattan trial to throw him in jail for violating his gag order.”
AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: How to solve social chaos: Treat people as persons, not things.
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE, HOW DOES IT WORK?
Actually even that is not enough to acquit. Trump has to have not known about the $130,000 hush money payment at the time he was reimbursing Cohen for it! https://t.co/b3UZH03Xvo
— Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) May 6, 2024
This is just embarrassing for an attorney but par for an MSNBC legal analyst.
SURE, BUT THEN IT WOULDN’T PRODUCE GRAFT IN CALIFORNIA: Money California wastes on the homeless could buy a first-class life in Missouri.
In some places, one unit of supportive housing for people who are homeless costs a cool million dollars. And, every month after it is built taxpayers fork over $17,000 for security, maintenance, social workers to help them get government assistance, utilities, cleaning and such.
To put that in perspective for people in normal America, you could buy each Californian suffering from homelessness two first-class tickets to Kansas City International Airport, get them a limo ride to their new home, which would be a new three-bedroom ranch, fully furnished (natch) with a new Tesla in the garage, and still save hundreds of thousands of dollars. Every month, you could give them a salary for picking up cans and other debris along the highways that would be greater than half of what working Missourians make and still save $10,000 off that monthly bill.
If money and houses could solve homelessness, this is what California would do — and Missouri would be a winner, as all those formerly homeless people paid property and income taxes thanks to the taxpayers of the palm-festooned paradise on the Pacific.
Well, if California wanted to solve homelessness. But homelessness is too lucrative a problem to solve.
