The Arday Scandal

 The Free Beacon on the scandal involving the youngest black professor in Cambridge history.

Random Thoughts

 A qualified compliment is an alarm bell. ~ Any business lunch that involves Chinese food or BBQ is likely to be well-attended. ~ In general, you should avoid the novels of Graham Greene if you're depressed. ~ Breaking exercise into small segments makes it more difficult to avoid. ~ Whether to replace a trip to a conference with a trip to the mountains or the beach should not be a difficult decision. ~ Before proceeding with a major decision, explore the assumptions. ~ A new word is needed to describe the modern news media's unique blend of incompetence and bias. ~ I wonder if colleges will even have majors in 2030. ~ Let's bring back postcards as a charming way of updating one another. ~ It is easy to work alongside heroes and not realize it, but the same cannot be said of fools. ~ One of the many gifts that Israel has inadvertently given to supporters of Western Civilization is that of shared enemies. ~ Networking events may give you some meaningful connections but volunteer work for the good of the community will definitely do so. ~ How can we preserve the values produced by farm families if farms continue to be replaced by real estate developments? ~ Much of research involves determining which material can be ignored. ~ If you want to be shunned by someone either loan them money or do them a favor. ~ One of the biggest mistakes of people who speak the same language is assuming that they share the same meanings.

There Goes the Neighborhood

 

Back By Popular Demand

 

Not That This Would Be Subject to Abuse

Brownstone Institute: The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention considered establishing a national system of quarantine camps.

[HT: Joel Engel]

Read This!

Myron Magnet explores how Rudy Giuliani made New York City great again.

[Photo by Getty Images at Unsplash+]

Films About Totalitarianism: A Series

 

Slowly Reading. Greatly Enjoying.

 

Fauci and China

 Writing in City Journal, Nicholas Wade (no relation) examines where the blame rests for the pandemic.

An excerpt:

Fauci did not defend the natural origin position at Senator Paul’s hearing. In his long silences—he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times, despite his 2025 pardon from President Biden—even his supporters could hear a failure to deny some incontrovertible facts. He supported an extensive program of gain of function research without seeking the public advice and consent of independent scientific experts. He let his grantees fund dangerous viral manipulations at the Wuhan Institute in unsupervised and unsafe laboratory conditions. When the SARS-CoV2 virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, as it almost certainly did, he engineered a seemingly independent report that blamed the pandemic on nature instead of on the research that he had calamitously funded.  

First Paragraph

 We set off in an open cart drawn by four whip-scarred little oxen and piled high with equipment and provisions. No medieval knight could have been more closely armoured than were Tilly and I, against the rays of the sun. A mushroom-brimmed hat, built of two thicknesses of heavy felt and lined with red flannel, protected her creamy complexion, a long-sleeved white blouse clasped her by the neck, and a heavy skirt of khaki drill fell to her booted ankles.

- From The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley