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First, let’s start with a thrilling observation of how wonderful our country and civilization are. Progressive candidate for the RI Political Cooperative, Mike Niemeyer’s daughter has severe brain damage, but as Katherine Gregg reports in the Providence Journal, modern life is full of miracles: In a telephone interview on Friday, Niemeyer described the invaluable help a team…
We’ve reached the point of lunacy in the Ocean State. Katherine Gregg reports for the Providence Journal: The Rhode Island Department of Health has slapped violation notices on Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket and the state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital for failing to comply with the state’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate. If both Landmark and the state hospital…
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the reason and one’s perspective), Aaron Regunberg deleted the tweet shown in the featured image of this post before the time of this writing. His anti-American and anti-capitalist word-association response, however, is still worth pondering. The image is of a chart from an article in Financial Times by Alex Kaufman that purports…
Arresting a private business manager for attempted bribery of a public official raises an interesting crime to contemplate. Offering money for enhanced service is not a crime. I’ve never heard of somebody being arrested for trying to slip a m’aitre d’ cash to find somebody without reservations a table in a busy restaurant. And if…
Whether one generally agrees with his ideas or not, Jordan Peterson’s podcast is unique and wonderful in its approach. He’s a brilliant guy, and he’s genuinely striving to figure stuff out. To this end, he invites other brilliant people who he thinks can help him answer some question on for a conversation. Peterson comes to…
These two paragraphs from Steph Machado’s WPRI report on a Senate Rules, Government Ethics and Oversight Committee’s hearing concerning the state takeover of Providence schools convey the most-important information, with the rest describing superficial political performance: Zack Scott, the deputy superintendent of operations, told the Senate committee Wednesday only nine departing teachers had responded to…
Remember that scene that stood out for its creepiness even in the deeply creepy Silence of the Lambs in which the kidnapper-killer is trying to get his newest victim to rub lotion on her skin to be suitable for his female skin suit, saying, “It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets…
Episode 49 of James Lindsay’s The New Discourses podcast, titled “The Birth of Identity Marxism as Critical Theory’s New Proletariat,” is well worth the hour and a half to listen to it, although it may leave you worried that you’re becoming a conspiracy theorist. As the title suggests, Lindsay reviews some leftist intellectual writing from the…
One of my children is learning the standard single-axis political spectrum (no doubt in preparation for the AP test down the road), and the fortunate child enjoyed a free lesson on how inaccurate that is all the way home. I’ll spare you, dear reader, that experience, simply pointing you to the circular political spectrum I…
In June 2019 — two and a half years ago, when Rhode Island students now in their senior years were finishing their freshman years — the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins School of Education published a ground-shaking report on systemic failure in the Providence public school system. The first “challenge” the authors emphasized…