Temporarily Unexpected
As an aside, a neighbor who sources our Hutterite chickens told me yesterday the colony is being forced to empty their barns due to bird flu risk, whether infected or not — thus, no chicken for you!
What Would We Do Without Peer Review?
Journals were historically important in disseminating work and in organising peer review, feedback and curation. These are important functions and the hard work that we put into them is not wasted, but it is inefficient. We do not need journals as they exist now. With preprint servers, publication and dissemination is a solved problem. There are already multiple solutions for post-publication peer review and paper recommendation, and there are many active projects exploring alternatives. We need to find a way to maintain the good things about the current system while getting rid of the harmful aspects.
“Medical Aid In Dying”
I’m old enough to remember when it was called “killing”: – Dr. Sonu Gaind explains in this episode of my podcast how medically assisted dying in Canada has very quickly expanded in concerning ways, and most people aren’t even aware it is happening
It’s been a good news day for serial killers.
It’s Probably Nothing
Captain Crotch
Feminine care brand Intimina developed its raspberry-flavoured ‘Period Crunch’ to encourage families to discuss menstruation more openly at breakfast.
It’s Friday On Turtle Island
Safety Justin says more gun control coming to Canada.
Biden’s America. Tucker Carlson slams Beto. Biden slammed for sticking his nose into Northern Ireland issues. Some monkeypox business. Three Democrat disgraces. Biden received election funding from Swiss billionaire. The dumbest Hollywood hatemongers, part 3. This week’s whoppers.
I blame Michael Coren. The Woke Church of England.
Compensation for Indian kids that went to day school like all Canadian children. Justin’s CBC explains that racism is running rampant in New Brunswick.
Rex Murphy defends Ricky Gervais.
Why are we still a member of this thing? Little rocket man at the UN. Your morning meme.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including how to fail a drug test; how to retrieve a towel; some improbable stillness; some hardcore cleaning; and a tool for skipping the ever-lengthening ‘sponsor’ segments in YouTube videos.
May 27, 2022: Reader Tips
Tonight we return to 1962 to enjoy some glimpses of Vancouver and environs.
Your somewhat more recent tips are appreciated!
“The coverage triggered protests, church arsons and condemnation from Canada’s bad-faith rivals…”
Give Terry Glavin and the National Post their due. This took guts.
This is how it all began, a year ago this week: ‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of Indigenous Children Reported in Canada. On May 28, 2021, that’s how the New York Times headlined the first of a summer-long series of gruesome “discoveries” that precipitated a descent into paroxysms of shame, guilt and rage that swept across the country.
That first story was ostensibly about 215 children whose remains were discovered in a mass grave at the site of the long-shuttered Kamloops Indian Residential School, on the grounds of the main Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc reserve in British Columbia’s southern interior. The New York Times headline illustrates the way the story was almost universally reported.
Except that’s not what happened in Kamloops.
Read it all.
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
Change my mind: Disney+ promoted a drag queen special for children, encouraging kids as young as kindergarten to join the gender identity and trans activist organization GLSEN.
Learn To Code
Canadian journalists reportedly experiencing ‘alarming’ levels of work-related mental health issues, PTSD …
“Join The Green Revolution!”, They Said
We’ll all be RICH!, they said.
Soy Boy David French
For several years I followed & supported so-called conservatives like Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney, Boris Johnson, and a whole host of writers from National Review. Why? Because they weren’t dyed-in-the-wool Leftists. But as the months & years marched on, while they seemingly did little to nothing to support traditional values and common sense, and the Leftists took over yet more institutions, I had an epiphany: Are these people real conservatives or merely controlled opposition of the Left?
No person more exemplifies these fake-right, lukewarm dishrag “conservatives” than David French. His brain has been deeply damaged by TDS and, more recently, DeSantis Derangement Syndrome (DDS). He is entirely fine with any insanity the Radical Left wishes to push on Americans, including young children. He will never push back against them.
We Don’t Need No Frozen Sparky Cars
A class action lawsuit is being brought before a Quebec court alleging that the battery performance of the Chevrolet Bolt – 2017’s “Green Car of the Year” – isn’t as advertised.
As reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, General Motors boasted that the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt was able to drive up to 383 kilometers before needing to be charged. However, plaintiffs in the lawsuit are alleging that the vehicle’s range during winter before requiring a charge is a lot lower than advertised.
“The range of the Bolt electric vehicle does not even reach 300 kilometres,” they claim.
They also say that colder weather drastically increases the battery’s charging time and that General Motors was “(a)ware of this situation as early as 2017 but knowingly omitted to mention it to the plaintiff and other members of the class.”
They deserve to have the suit thrown out. Anyone who would pay $38K for a vehicle with an advertised three hours of highway range is an idiot.
Genius
Pollspotting
Has the B.C. government justified its $1 billion museum decision?
h/t Sean M
Safe and Effective®
Preprint: Vaccines against the coronavirus may impair the body’s ability to produce a key type of antibody, thus potentially limiting the immune system’s defenses against mutated strains of the virus, a new study suggests.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Where do they find these people?
One year ago @elizashapiro, a NYT education reporter, wrote this breathless 1,400-word story about a “sweeping” and “dramatic” lawsuit from lefty race activists that would rewrite admissions to NYC schools. A Democratic judge tossed it out today in a two-sentence ruling.
This is where they find these people.
…the education reporter, Eliza Shapiro, failed the selective public high school examination, went to a $50k/yr private high school instead, then attended Columbia where her dad is a professor and got a job at the NYT where her mom is a senior editor.
Its Thursday On Turtle Island
Justin admires their basic dictatorship. China’s genocide against the Uyghurs.
Bernie Farber explains you’re a Nazi, if you believe in the Great Replacement Theory.
Justin’s bought and paid for media. Stories you won’t find at the CBC. Alberta sues Biden. Justin’s small business minister continues to give contracts to her friends.
Biden’s America. Beto promotes himself at Texas shooting press conference. Looking for causes. Meanwhile at the border. 50,000 waiting to cross over. And Pelosi denied communion.
We need a ten year, sixty million dollar inquiry. Hydro dams are racist.
Creepy Joe Biden and kids. Your morning meme.