McChuck: There is a long-term downward trend in American adults who are actually American. The percentage of American children in our schools is around 40% and dropping.
Bob Sykes: We have repeatedly had good news stories about striking successes in educating poor students that on investigation turned out to be frauds. That said, a general return to phonics would be a very good thing. PS. There is a long-term downward trend in literacy among American adults. American literacy rates are well below European norms and much lower than Russian and Chinese norms.
Bruce: Ed Realist is pretty skeptical of the Mississippi story. I trust him.
Gaikokumaniakku: I apologize for being thick, but I get the sense you’re making a good argument and I’m not up to speed on the basic info I need to understand it. a. >Consider the Age of Quackery in England and USA alike. At least on the level Chesterton described. I did some web searching and I couldn’t find any Chesterton writing about quackery. b. >Seabrook in biography of Wood mentions a lot of curious nonsense, but that quackery was about mere fraud, not power for the...
Gaikokumaniakku: https://www.goodreads.co m/author/list/41319.John _Taylor_Gatto John Taylor Gatto knew it would get this bad. https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto We can zoom out and take a broader view. Education is one set of symptoms. Another widespread problem is a refusal to make upper-class white liberal ladies feel bad. We can’t blame lazy students because a white liberal lady would swoop out of nowhere and sabotage the effort, destroying one or more good men in the process....
Bob Sykes: Is it not amazing that the senior officer class was so small pre-war, that everyone knew everyone? The same thing occurred when Marshall chose Eisenhower, then a lowly colonel, for head of the ETO. Does anyone believe that situation continues today among a thousand, or so, flag officers? Did Eisenhower see combat in WWI? MacArthur led a brigade (?). After the war, Eisenhower was on MacArthur’s staff for a while.
Albion: To me, the most astonishing thing about the left’s self-appointed ‘warriors’ is not just that everything they espouse would be crushed (to the point of exile and even execution) by their future idealised leaders, but that they cannot see it. History has innumerable examples of not only opposition being curtailed, but even more that allies, friends and helpers are dealt with even faster–and harsher. After all, someone who has shown violence in order to get a ‘better...
Space Nookie: “propriety oral formulation of…” AI is searching for new ways to patent old drugs
Bruce: After the war, Groves had two personnel problems. Scientists and soldiers. Of course every scientist who’d built the Bomb was swamped by great offers. And the ones who left had the habits of college intrigue: ‘Oppenheimer told me that Bradbury found it hard to explain “a statement attributed to you that you had lost your first and second quality scientists and were in danger of losing your third, fourth and fifth.” This was like many another statement attributed to me in that I had...
Handle: Moxy is a lot of fun and not very hard to make (a few steps from melatonin precursor, easy to get cheap and pure in bulk). Moxy is orally active already, been around a very long time, and this sounds exactly like what it feels like to take a low dose of Moxy, so I’m not exactly sure what value if any the “AI” added to this “new” formulation, unless of course that’s the joke, they’re just trying the model of selling lower doses of the fun stuff for...
T. Beholder: “It’s not just Luigi anymore,” Finkelstein said. “We’re seeing an expansion: Trump, Musk and others are now being openly discussed as legitimate targets, often cloaked in meme culture and gamified online dialogue.” What a curious new phenomenon. Search for “Payal Modi” and “squirt gun”. And that was in Dallas of all places. The NCRI study traces the cultural shift back to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione in December 2024....
Bob Sykes: Generation Alpha is going to be a wild ride.
Jim: Or how about the Department of “Justice”? Somehow the constitutional necessity of DOJ wasn’t discovered until… … … 1870!
Jim: Bryan Caplan says: Blatant violations of the plain English reading of the Constitution. Dude, Bryan, my man, I’ve had the same thought so many times that you just wouldn’t believe it. Women voting? Blacks bearing arms? Taxing wages as income? Land taxes? Free money for everyone—parasitic capitalist, Oriental striver, and worthless gibs recipient alike—except productive whitey, at productive whitey’s expense? Iryna Zarutska being stabbed to death on public transit by a hominid with...
T. Beholder: Andrew Carnegie was concerned that college professors were having to work far into their dotage, so his Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching created a pension system for them. How randomly caring! However, in order to participate in the Carnegie professor pension plan, colleges would be required to standardize both their admissions process and degree offerings. This surely… uhh… prevents the professors from having to work far into their dotage. Somehow. Presumably. City...
Bruce: D party courts have refused to prosecute an open and shut case of accessory after the fact for Charlie Kirk’s killer. D party courts back D party muscle.
T. Beholder: What’s confusing? That a journalist is talking like a journalist?
T. Beholder: Darwinian evolution just tells us less about human sexuality than I imagined. So he is trying to reconcile the Official Truth with the Observable Reality. His predictions based on this salad continue to fail. So enigmatic… It never had a good aftertaste, yet the people who think they are smart keep reinventing “Forbidden fruit and Lethe water power drink”. https://sinfest.xyz/view .php?date=2011-05-25 Michael van der Riet says: Caplan isn’t actually a red. He’s just pink all over. It...
Dan Kurt: Another example of the Tyranny of the IQ curve.
A cutie!
I wonder what the secondary overlap will be if we continue with standard and add magenta? And who’ll represent it?
The platypus always holds the center.