Justin Trudeau. Truly
comical. Conservatives smugly tweeted
out their schadenfreude as the uber progressive Canadian prime minister twisted
in the wind when photos of him appeared with a darkened face in a turban at a
party. Trudeau, who paid damages to an
Islamic terrorist and admonished a girl for using the term “mankind” instead of
“peoplekind” and who is fond of labeling Trump a racist got hoisted on his
woke petard, to the pleasure of many. While
I question whether this is truly racist (a subject of another post), I admit it
was fun to see him squirm. Trudeau’s response was predictable: Let’s talk about gun control.
Newberry Library.
Last week the august Newberry Library morphed from a research library to
a wokeness center. The old, stuffy icon
of Chicago over the past few years has successfully transformed itself into an
intellectual center, engaging the community with such delights as the 100th
Anniversary celebration of Carl Sandburg’s poem Chicago and a special exhibit
of Herman Melville with a 26 hour Moby-Dick read-a-thon (which I participated
in). But alas, wokeness has infected the
stately old lady. Last weekend, the
library hosted a Drag Queen Story Hour, targeted specifically at children ages
3 to 8, in which drag queens would read aloud to them. The purpose?
Incredibly on the Newberry website, it says it “captures the imagination
and play of the gender fluidity of childhood” (I was playing with trucks, tanks
and little green army men) and “gives
kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.” (I’m not sure
those are the role models I would want for my little boy). This looks suspiciously like grooming. Borrowing from Pink Floyd, my reaction is,
“Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone.”
Newberry promises to hold a second installment on November 2.
Climate Protests. Continuing
with one of the major themes of child exploitation this week was the Climate
Protests. The protests were led by
wunderkind, the autistic Greta Thunberg, who somehow has gained sufficient
status to be nominated for a Nobel Prize, testify before Congress, and gain a
meeting with former president Obama. It’s
simply stunning to watch people enthralled by an autistic little girl whose
qualifications don’t even include a ribbon at a school science fair. Her performance at the Climate Summit was so
overdone as to lose credibility. At
least David Hogg was on site during the Parkland shooting, and that, I suppose
granted him a sort of license. Little
Greta has no such qualification that conveys any authority whatsoever.
Kavanaugh. The new
Kavanaugh allegations are almost comical.
He allegedly went to some party with his winkie hanging out and a friend
grabbed it and put it in some woman’s hand.
There are a number of credibility problems with this assertion. First, it was being made by Clinton lawyer Max Stier. Cough. Cough. Second, the woman in question has no memory
of the incident. Third, is a practical
one. If a man grabs another man’s winkie,
this is not how the story usually ends.
Fourth, as an Irish friend relayed to me, “This presumes a winkie of
certain size. The Irish are not known
for that. Faced with a choice of a large
organ, we chose liver.” This outlandish attempt
to delegitimize Kavanaugh will fade from the news cycle quickly.
Trump and the Ukraine.
There allegations that Trump pressured the Ukraine government to
investigate the corruption of Joe Biden’s son (of course, on hearsay
evidence). But Joe himself is on record
stating that he threatened to withhold aid from the Ukrainian government if it
did not fire the prosecutor that was looking into the corruption of his son and
the company his son was involved with.
Of course, Hillary has been weighing in, no stranger to using foreign
political influence to fill the family coffers.
If Trump asked a foreign leader to look into the corruption of a
political family, so what? Here,
companies must comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. It looks like the Bidens and the Clintons
think they’ve been granted an exemption.
It all seemed like Theatre of the Absurd. Yet, there were glimmers of hope and
normalcy. Baseball legend Carl Yastrzemski
was on hand at Fenway to see his grandson hit a home run in his first major
league game at Fenway Park. Billionaire
Robert Smith followed through on his pledge to make a gift to pay off students’
student loans at Morehouse College and expanded it to $34 million. And the Chicago Cubs spied a young boy with a
homemade Cubs jersey and enlisted Twitter’s help to identify him and graced him
with a new, authentic jersey.
Even amongst the madness, we see glimpses of the greatness of our heritage.
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