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A busy week with a new school term meaning I'm back afternoon receptioning at the SEN school 5 days a week. I rushed back Thursday night and spent an hour in traffic fretting that I'd be late for my lecture only to realize that the college term starts next week! I do need to start work on my final essays so there will probably be fewer posts in the next few weeks. To start this weeks roundup, a couple of leftovers from last week that I forgot to include:

How corporations conspire with Democrats to hoard power at the public’s expense

The Hypocrisy and Left-Wing Nature of the Extinction Rebellion

Space: NASA’s bold bet on Starship for the Moon may change spaceflight forever. Also, this week saw the second Crew Dragon mission. 

Why everything is racist. Quote: 'the activists have the same simplistic, blinkered view of life and the same radical solutions. The irony in both cases is that their ideology reaches its peak popularity after the genuine grievances that gave rise to it in the first place have by and large been confronted and addressed. No matter.' And to misquote the Incredibles 'When everything is racist, nothing is'

James Lileks reports from the ground in Minnesota, 

The Age of Over-Abundant Elites

True:  Chauvin Verdict Settles Little. Related There’s No Way Americans Can Trust The Jury’s Chauvin Verdict 

Another domino falls: How Critical Race Theory captured the Church

Substack: A Crack in Our Media’s Berlin Wall I often find interesting articles there, such as this article- Why is Everything Liberal?

Western Civilization's Growing Intellectual Dead Zones Excerpt: 'Only after the rot becomes too evident to deny will there be widespread recognition of the problem. But by then it is usually too late. Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of collapsing civilizations is that they rarely see the crash coming. Things keep “getting better” until the smash, which reveals itself briefly in what has been termed the “Ceausescu moment,” the instant when artificial stupidity is replaced by blinding clarity'

 Is it really time for the monarchy to go? Related,  It’s the Queen or tyranny

Why I’m backing Laurence Fox to be Mayor of London I'd vote for him too if I lived in London

Why Don’t Conservatives Make Great Movies? This is a good point: 'I have long argued that the right has to stop trying to move the culture via position papers. Stop shoveling huge sums into think tanks to prop up the Ira Coaster Chair in Slightly Pressurized Liberty. Instead, start creating art and culture. Take risks. That’s what the left did.'

Videos:

ONLY CASTASTROPHE Can Bring Equality

Britain is in decline:

And finally, an amusing meme (via):

I've noticed this particularly with the BBC's recent environmental output with the Gretard.


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