38 Replies to “July 7, 2020: Reader Tips”

      1. Tell me about it. My former employer, Armpit College, took in anybody who could fog a mirror and it was expected that everybody passed.

        It’s a wonder I never became an alcoholic. Yeah, I often got loaded when I got home.

        1. As a frat brother of mine said, to his crying fiancee (after she took his place at an afternoon drinkin… er, sporting event involving longboats and paddles with the rest of us) “no dear, they’re not a bunch of alcoholics. We’re drunks. We don’t go to those meetings.”

          1. they’re not a bunch of alcoholics. We’re drunks. We don’t go to those meetings

            I’ll have to remember that.

            Several years ago, one of my fellow tenants was an educator at Armpit College, though I had long left before he started. Whenever I met him in our building or in the surrounding neighbourhood, he was rarely sober. Considering who his employer was, and my recollections of the place, I couldn’t say I blamed him for being frequently sozzled.

  2. While on the subject of Charlie Daniels, I remember when this song was played on the radio a few months after the American embassy was invaded and occupied in Tehran:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtZ5YsvREi4

    I was at UBC at the time and I often listened to the radio station in Bellingham that used to have the callsign KNWR.

  3. Yeah, I was sad to hear that old Charlie Daniels went on to glory today, but he lived a full life and sawed the bow righteously.
    I got into a minor tiff with some old jam band buds who apparently grew to hate Charlie for being what they consider to be a red neck patriot etc blah blah blah….to the extent of now hating his music.
    I rebutted by pointing out that I now think that Neil Young, for example, is an addled fool but I still like Harvest Moon if not his misplaced politics.
    You know, agree to disagree, and converse about it if you must, but abide the “diversity” of views and remain friends, the way we were able to be a long seeming time ago.
    Needless to say, I wasted my time on that tack and likely lost a couple of so called friends.
    RIP Charlie. Thanks for the righteous fiddlin’ amigo, patriot, and mate to your wife for 57 years.

    1. It’s appalling enough that the last place you would look for Free Speech or diversity of opinion is the Media, Universities or Book Publishers, but must they really lead the charge in joining with the cancelers, the looters, thugs, communists and Liberals?

  7. Thomas Sowell@ThomasSowell
    Jul 5
    Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, “social justice.”
    (a quotation from one of his books)

    1. Oh, blast! Another musical great has left us. Aside from his score for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, his best known film music would likely have been for The Mission.

      Farewell and thank you, sir.

  11. Coming to a city near you…

    **The City of Seattle held a training session for white employees called “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness.”
    So I did a public records request to find out exactly what this means. Let’s go through it together in this thread.**

    Here’s an example,

    **Sometimes both sides of the coin are “oppression.”
    Are white employees speaking too much? That’s probably the internalized racial superiority of “imposition” or “paternalism.”
    Are white employees speaking too little? That’s oppression, too, because “silence” is “violence.”

    https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1280277423846653953

    …and sooner than you think.

    1. So it can be summed up with “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t”, like the famous Gary Larson cartoon “Just Pick One”.

  13. The mainstream media were quick to throw the Dear Leader’s failure to win a U.N. security council seat down the memory hole. Now we have Bob Rae in his first interview since being appointed Canada’s ambassador to the U.N. saying the failure has not tarnished Canada’s reputation:

    “Bob Rae, who was named Canada’s next ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, says he rejects any notion that Canada’s international reputation was harmed by its failed bid for a Security Council seat.”

    Of course Bob. Anything you say Bob. And your years as premier of Ontario were the province’s golden years.

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-bob-rae-next-un-ambassador-says-canadas-reputation-not-harmed-by/

  14. Sadly Bob Rae is correct;”Canada’s reputation was not harmed”.
    Our reputation as a fundamentally unserious country,hell bent on self destruction, can hardly be harmed.

    1. Exactly. How can one damage something that’s already in poor shape?

    2. JR: Good point. I have passed through my struggle session and now admit that Bob Rae was right ( but for the wrong reason).

  17. I was going to comment on Charlie’s passing but these days everyone who goes is just too close in age. Liked his music and his politics.

  19. “The University of British Columbia’s latest annual enrollment report, for the first time, refers to Taiwan as a “province of China” rather than the independent country it is.

    The University of British Columbia gets more tuition revenue from international students than from domestic students. Chinese students make up a third of those internationals.

    And the Canadian public university doesn’t want to rock the boat on all that revenue tied to China.”

    https://www.thecollegefix.com/canadian-university-starts-referring-to-taiwan-as-province-of-china-after-diplomatic-row/

    1. The more I hear about what’s happening at UBC, the more I’m glad I quit grad studies there after a year. I would been embarrassed to be an alumnus.

      1. Yes. I am. They haven’t fully dropped me from their mailing list, however.

        1. Considering the idiocies my alma mater, the University of Alberta, has engaged in recently, such as giving an honorary degree to Dr. Fruit Fly, I’m glad I rarely hear from the alumni association.

    1. Harper tried to get rid of many politically compromised NGO’s and lobby groups masquerading as charities, but Libs have brought them all back. That is how they operate. Libs use taxpayer money to buy support.

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