Winners

Resistance Teachers – After four years of The Resistance LARP, woke teachers can now subvert and resist evil, hateful parents by continuing to teach CRT flavored lessons.

Covid Hype Machine – Variants is the new scare tactic. The data does not back them up but will scare the 40% of America that wants the weirdness to continue.

JD Vance – With his beard, he had a nice rollout to his Senate campaign. The beard move is worth whatever the marketing team was paid.

Losers

Renters – The eviction moratorium ends soon and the powers that be are messaging in anticipation.

Marijuana Industry – Cali growers and distributors need a bailout as the taxes make it so costly that the illegal market can still thrive.

Afghanistan Government Forces – Random videos of their quick surrender are giving Saigon ‘75 vibes (unfair to the ARVN).

Links

The story of Neanderthals still undergoes changes, but what remains the same is that they were quite vicious.

Luttwak writes a eulogy of sorts for Donald Rumsfeld.

Gamers catch fraud. Scientists don’t. Why? This essay accepts scientists as honorable for some reason. Maybe it is because scientists are part of an academic guild and look the other way.

Nagle on the victory of the libs. One giant blind spot is that neoliberalismis still in control it just has woke characteristics. Neolibs absorb wokeism .

Thomas on the theory of the anti-partisan.

The shiny tech progressive utopia is a myth.

This is a weird profile on the colorful character that put MILF on the cultural map.