The Milwaukee Bucks might have won a world championship, but the idiocy around the world goes on all the same.
1. When Ronald Reagan referred to Communism as a "Mickey Mouse system," that wasn't kind to the mouse. "Real Communism has never been tried before, but it certainly has been attempted in all sorts of flavors and every single one of them sucked."
2. The "crisis" crisis. "To keep audiences frightened around the clock, journalists seek out Cassandras with their own incentives for fearmongering: politicians, bureaucrats, activists, academics, and assorted experts who gain publicity, prestige, funding, and power during a crisis."
3. Defund the "Arts." "I expect I’m speaking on behalf of a lot of people when I say that our entire public life increasingly feels like a bad performance put on for someone else—a tiny subset of unrepresentative, outspoken activists, fellow travelers with outsized voices and their semi-senile patrons oblivious to the grotesque character of these dog and pony shows."
4. What is the essence of a female-to-male crosser? "Although scientists have long repudiated race essentialism, critical race theorists frame American history as a 500-year, one-dimensional struggle of races pitted endlessly against each other, with people of color as victims and whites as oppressors."
6. Barstool Populism for the win. "There is nothing progressive about looking in the rearview mirror for solutions to many of the issues we face today."
7. Undermine them with mockery! "The stunt has been a mortifying self-own for Democrats, who have tut-tutted and scolded us like neurotic nancies all pandemic while privately doing as they please."
8. Squandering the institutional memory. "Like all universities in this moment in time, Howard relies significantly upon a faculty of full-time, non-tenure-track professors." Nikole Hannah-Jones gets tenure, neither Toni Morrison nor Roberta Flack did.
10. [National Public Radio] sucks and is unlistenable, so people are going elsewhere. It's also sleep-inducing in the drive time hours.
11. Trade-tested betterments rock. "Just as dental care, car ownership, and airplane travel were once the sole province of the wealthy, so too is space tourism—for now, but probably not forever."
13. The American people aren't stupid. "You can’t escape violence. You must pay more for basic consumer products. Your kids can’t escape leftist indoctrination and they must wear a mask while they listen to it. And you can’t even get a good shower. That’s the Democratic dystopia in a nutshell. Running against the Democratic dystopia should be an easy campaign for the GOP. Vote them all out." More: "Normal people do not care about what the ‘woke’ Left wants because it’s usually insane, like being pro-crime. And if Democrats want to continue to cater to these privileged white, college-educated liberals who would rather insult instead of persuading people with whom they disagree—enjoy being a permanent minority. "
14. Is this a work truck? "The electric F-150 will carry its own nuanced wrinkle, signaling 'truck guy, but not Trump guy.'" Shorter signal: doofus.
15. Implementing policy is hard. "It can't be decided based on facts; it comes down to values."
16. Had enough yet? "Americans can put up with an Olympic athlete who hates America, because she wins games anyway." Just turn them off.
17. Stuck between cultists and totalitarians. "Deluded Republicans and Smug Democrats Offer Little Hope for People Who Want To Be Left Alone."
19. Tax incidence analysis is hard. "From the 2018 analysis, the top 10% of earners paid 71.4% of all federal income taxes." Also, "Can any Democrat other than Bernie Sanders accurately define 'fair share'?"
22. Somebody could use a second course on "mutually beneficial trades." "Wall Street’s goal is to get wealthier—no matter the impact on our economy, environment, transportation system or workforce."
23. Losing the athletic arms race? "For every minute of awestruck television coverage of football or basketball, another 10,000 talentless clods waste another million hours practicing for an imaginary professional future they will never come close to realizing." If you land on your feet writing for National Review, that's one thing, but when the newsies of Rockford cover high school sports to excess, that might be a waste.
24. The tragic vision comes to The Nation. "Anthony Fauci may be remembered, in the end, as a warning more than an exemplar: an adventurous bureaucrat in the field of scientific research who became a hero in his own eyes. The trouble begins when such a person asks for our implicit trust in return for his good intentions."
25. Amen. "Maybe the problem isn’t that no one on the left still loves America — millions still do. It’s that if you show it, you’re considered right-wing."
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